VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is warning people along the East Coast of the U.S. about life-threatening rip currents being produced by swells from both major Hurricane Humberto and Tropical Storm Imelda churning nearby in the Atlantic.
That comes as the Volusia County Sheriff's Office in Florida reported that a 51-year-old man from "out of state" drowned on Saturday after he was pulled out into the ocean by a rip current and couldn't make it back to shore.
"Not a good time to be in the water, and the storm offshore is not going to make conditions any better," the Volusia Sheriff's Office wrote in a social media post Sunday.
The National Weather Service has issued rip current risks for beaches along almost the entire East Coast from the Gold Coast of Florida