South Florida and U.S. East Coast residents, however, should brace for indirect effects, including higher surf and a heightened rip current risk over the next several days.

Residents in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos on Monday braced for the Atlantic season's first hurricane, the Category 4 Erin, after it strengthened over the weekend while sweeping past the Caribbean...

“When assessing how people in the US lost their lives from the last 10 years due to tropical storms and hurricanes about 12% of them were due to rip currents,” according to Cassandra Mora, meteorolog...

Erin is expected to produce life-threatening surf and rip currents to the Atlantic coast from Florida to Canada.

Life-threatening surf and rip currents are likely across the East Coast of the United States this week, as Hurricane Erin continues to grow.

"Despite the path of Erin forecast to remain offshore, the threat of life threatening rip currents, damaging beach erosion, and major coastal flooding and over wash, and extremely dangerous surf conti...