A tropical storm warning has been issued for North Carolina as Hurricane Erin churns up the east coast of the U.S. as a Category 2 storm.

Fog and drizzle gradually lift by midday. A passing storm is possible later today. "Erin" impacts felt Thursday.

Hurricane Erin is already creating dangerous beach conditions in New Jersey and Delaware on Tuesday, with the worst of the waves and rip currents not expected until Thursday. From Point Pleasant to Rehoboth Beach,

Every week in the summer, Delaware Online/The News Journal provides this weekly guide to the Delaware beaches. Here's what's happening this week. Hurricane Erin isn't expected to make landfall, but the magnitude of the storm means that even as it passes hundreds of miles offshore, its effects will be felt along the coast.

Even though Erin is expected to stay hundreds of miles offshore, its impacts are forecast to worsen as it crawls northward and makes its closest approach to the U.S. mainland. Erin was generating waves of 35 feet or more at an ocean buoy east-northeast of the Bahamas on Aug. 19, creating swells and stirring up a broad swath of the ocean.

People trying to enjoy the last hurrahs of summer along the coast are being met on Wednesday with rip-current warnings, closed beaches and treacherous waves as Hurricane Erin inches closer, still a powerful storm as it treks northwest after lashing Turks and Caicos and Bermuda.

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