Hurricane Erin has taken a few turns that have now created a much more dramatic situation for the coastline—reaching all the way up into the Mid-Atlantic and even New York City.
Storm surge is now expected for New York Harbor, Raritan Bay, the waters around Staten Island, the entire Jersey Shore, all of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina’s coastlines, as well as the northern half of South Carolina’s coastline.
For days, official storm trackers maintained that Erin would remain safely offshore. But many amateur forecasters began noticing a subtle westward trend several days ago. That trend has continued. While the storm is still expected to stay mostly out to sea, portions of the East Coast will now face impacts that simply weren’t predicted earlier in the week.
