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

Tropical Storm Watches and Warnings have been issued for parts of North Carolina and Virginia Beach and up to Chincoteague.

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.

Hurricane Erin brings a coastal flood advisory, rip currents and rough surf to Hilton Head beaches as it moves hundreds of miles away.

A new system has emerged in the eastern tropical Atlantic, heading westward toward the Leeward Islands as Hurricane Erin continues to spin.

“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.

Nova Scotia RCMP have identified a man who died last week after an encounter with Mounties in Aulds Cove, N.S., but they haven't revealed his name publicly. Just before 9 p.m. on Thursday, Antigonish RCMP were called to reports of a man walking on Highway 104 in Aulds Cove.

Using geochemical analyses of marine sediments, researchers have been able to quantitatively reconstruct the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation over the past 12,000 years. The international research team,