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Erin is a category 2 hurricane but it has weakened just a bit. The storm is moving NNW at 10 mph with winds up to 105 mph.Erin went through an extreme rapid intensification over the weekend. It went from a tropical storm on Friday morning to a major category 5 hurricane north of the Leeward Islands on Saturday morning.
Two states on the Eastern Seaboard face a risk of tropical rain and some wind this week, as well as rip currents.
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FOX 35 Orlando on MSNHurricane Erin to bring life-threatening surf, rip currents to Florida; NHC tracking 2 other tropical waves
Hurricane Erin is continuing to inch closer to the United States, and the storm is expected to bring dangerous high surf and life-threatening rip currents to Florida through the middle of the week.
Hurricane Erin, now a powerful Category 4 storm churning in the Caribbean, is not forecast to hit land, but it will impact North Carolina and bring dangerous waves and rip currents to the U.S. East Coast.