Major CAT-4 Hurricane Erin Shifts its Heading - New Tropical Storm Alerts in North Carolina | Aug 18 2025

Scattered showers and thunderstorms will begin to fire up this afternoon with the chance of a few stronger cells, or possibly even a Severe Thunderstorm. High temperatures will return to the low and mid-nineties allowing for instability to rise with a sea breeze moving in. Our window for potentially strong storms will stretch from 4:00-7:00pm with intensity tapering throughout the latter half of the evening. Out across our beaches dangerous conditions will begin to heighten today. From Today through Thursday Dangerous life-threatening Rip Currents will persist, with wave heights offshore possibly cresting at 14 feet by Wednesday. This is all in regard to Major Hurricane Erin turning n

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