More than 1,000 people have evacuated the Outer Banks as Hurricane Erin moves across the Atlantic Ocean. D.C. residents drive law enforcement out of neighborhood

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.

“Some gradual development of this system is possible during hte middle to latter portion of thw eeek while the system moves westward to west-northwestward at 15 to 20 mph across teh eastern and central tropical Atlantic,” the hurricane center said.

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.

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.