Hurricane Erin, now a Category 2 storm, is passing by Virginia, Maryland and Delaware as the work week closes out. Although it won’t likely make landfall, the storm is causing dangerous conditions along coastal areas.

The greatest impacts from the hurricane will be along the beaches with dangerous surf, rip currents, beach erosion and coastal flooding, according to 7News First Alert Meteorologist Brian van de Graaff.

“If you have any beach plans in the next couple of days that rip current and high surf is going to be pretty intense and they are saying you have to stay out of the water even after the storm passes until things start to calm down,” he said.

There’s rough surf and rip currents in Ocean City, according to an update from the city’s department of emergency management Thursd

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