Hurricane Erin has battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes.

Two homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks sit precariously in high waves generated by Hurricane Erin with their days seemingly numbered.

Hurricane Erin brings dangerous rip currents and high surf to Jacksonville beaches, with the Outer Banks under evacuation and local forecasts showing continued hot weather.

Hurricane Erin is strengthening again and forecasters say it could intensify again to be a major hurricane.

Hurricane Erin is churning slowly toward the eastern U.S. coast and stirring up waves that already have forced dozens of beach rescues.

Hurricane Erin is expected to impact the Outer Banks in North Carolina, sending massive waves crashing into the islands.

Hurricane Erin is forcing evacuations on North Carolina’s Outer Banks as it churns in the Atlantic where high winds and heavy rain are pelting the Turks and Caicos Islands and parts of the Bahamas.

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. Eastern seaboard.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The past 25 years have seen a staggering increase of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic Hurricane Basin. Next month at the World Meteorological Organization meeting, there will be a discussion on whether to start the 2022 (and beyond) hurricane season on May 15. The change would NOT apply to the 2021 hurricane season. An effort is underway to examine the potential advantages and disadvantages of changing the official start date of the Atlantic hurricane season,” said Communications and Public Affairs Officer Dennis Feltgen. Through the first 150 years of hurricane record keeping (for the Atlantic Hurricane Basin), there were 19 early seasons, about once every eight years.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Tropical Storm Arthur crawled closer to the North Carolina coast early Monday, amid threats of some minor flooding and rough seas as the system moves off the Southeast seaboard. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami issued a tropical storm warning for North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Sunday. | Prepare for hurricane seasonTropical Storm Arthur formed Saturday evening off the Florida coast as the first named storm of the 2020 hurricane season. Early this week, Tropical Storm Arthur is forecast to move generally northeastward over the western Atlantic and likely pass near Bermuda. The full 11 a.m. Monday statement from the NHC:“At 1100 AM EDT (1500 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Arthur was located near latitude 35.1 North, longitude 75.2 West.

More than two dozen wild horses from the Outer Banks were found dead in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.

WILMINGTON, N.C. - After menacing the southeast coast all week, Hurricane Dorian made its first U.S. landfall Friday at Cape Hatteras, its eye crossing North Carolina's Outer Banks at 8:35 a.m., according to the National Hurricane Center. A weakened Hurricane Dorian flooded homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday with a fury that took even storm-hardened residents by surprise, forcing people to climb into their attics. "We are flooding like crazy,'' Ocracoke Island bookshop owner Leslie Lanier texted. "There is significant concern about hundreds of people trapped on Ocracoke Island,'' Gov. #Dorian has made landfall over Cape Hatteras, North Carolina at 835 AM EDT.

Wild horses along North Carolina's Outer Banks will move to higher ground and gather under sturdy trees to ride out the storm. OUTER BANKS, N.C. - A bunch of majestic horses that spend their days frolicking on the beach in North Carolina's Outer Banks will not be evacuated. With Hurricane Dorian quickly approaching, the colonial Spanish mustangs will huddle together and ride out the storm using a trick horses have used for centuries. And unlike human beings living in the Outer Banks, the wild horses are better equipped to handle a hurricane. Despite the dangers from the storm, the 100 or so wild horses in the area are resourceful and have an incredibly strong will to live, herd manager Meg Puckett said during Hurricane Florence last year.

2011: Hurricane Irene makes landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The storm would move up the East Coast and make landfall in southeastern New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York, the following day. Overall, the storm killed 47 and caused an estimated $15.6 billion in damage in the United States. Hide Caption