The National Hurricane Center is watching three areas of interest in the Atlantic behind Erin. Here's the latest on what may happen next.

Action News went on patrol with Chief Renny Steele of the Sea Isle Beach patrol on Wednesday as coastal towns prepared for coastal flooding thanks to Hurricane Erin. Chief Steele ordered his crews to remove boats and other apparatus of the beach in anticipation of high tides. Lifeguards moved beach stands to the high point of the sand dunes.

Maryland will avoid a direct hit from Hurricane Erin, but the storm is passing close enough in the Atlantic Ocean to have some effects.

New York and New Jersey — along with most East Coast states — are facing threats of life-threatening rip currents and massive waves from Hurricane Erin as the massive Category 2 cyclone creeps continues to churn off the coast.

Rough surf conditions and dangerous rip currents have forced many beaches to ban swimming and boogie boarding this week.

Scientists detect unusually deep earthquakes beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge seafloor, finding CO2 present there in magma.

Coastal Georgians evacuate inland to avoid winds and flooding from Atlantic hurricanes. Powerful storms crossing overland from the Gulf complicate that old playbook.

A Navy pilot based at Naval Air Station Oceana was rescued from the Atlantic Ocean off Virginia’s coast Wednesday after ejecting from a fighter jet.

Besides Erin, we are monitoring two areas of interest in the Atlantic Basin. Both are in the main development region of the Atlantic Ocean. The first has a 60% chance of tropical development over the next 7 days. The latest forecast track keeps this on a similar path as Erin initially, but a little farther to the east once it makes the turn.