2 more tropical systems trail Hurricane Erin
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Much of North Carolina’s Outer Banks region is under a tropical storm watch with Hurricane Erin expected to skirt the area Wednesday through Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Tropical Storm Erin's path puts some homeowners at heightened risk, as the storm starts building into a hurricane tracked by meteorologists.
Hurricane Erin has been downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane but is gaining in size and raising the risk of life-threatening surf later this week along the U.S.
The chances that the storm will make landfall in the U.S. have increased slightly after the path shifted south.
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Hurricane Erin explodes in strength to a Category 5 storm in the Atlantic near Caribbean islands
While the compact hurricane’s center was not expected to strike land, it threatened to dump flooding rains in the northeast Caribbean.