The storm will remain a major hurricane through the middle of the week, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Ominous clouds towered over Providenciales on Monday, August 18, as Hurricane Erin traveled along the coast of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The expected path of a disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean behind Hurricane Erin—with the potential to develop into a cyclone—has shifted since Tuesday, according to data from the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

Hurricane Erin neared North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Tuesday and threatened to whip up wild waves and tropical force winds.

Life-threatening surf and 155-kilometre-an-hour winds will lash the East Coast, National Weather Service forecasters warned Wednesday.