Hurricane Erin has triggered a state of emergency in North Carolina, where residents and visitors along the Outer Banks are under evacuation orders.

Hurricane Erin is entering the first stages of a post-tropical transition as it continues to move away from the eastern coast of the United States.

Hurricane Erin continues its northerly track and is set to deliver impacts to the beaches in New Jersey and Delaware.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is now monitoring three disturbances in the Atlantic, as Erin continues to prompt warnings along U.S. East Coast beaches. As of Friday morning, the NHC said that a "small area of low pressure located well southwest of the Azores is moving through a dry environment and producing only occasional showers."

There is a Fox 26 Storm Alert in place for Friday afternoon due to expected scattered and heavy storms between 2-9p.m.

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 Live 5 First Alert Weather team is watching a tropical wave that could produce the next tropical depression within days.

The National Hurricane Center on Friday kept watch on two developing systems in the Atlantic that could become the season’s next tropical depression or storm while Hurricane Erin began the