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."

North Carolina expects coastal flooding from massive waves, tropical-storm-force winds and tidal and storm surges for much of the state shoreline, especially the Outer Banks, as well as life-threatening rip currents for most of the week, Stein said, adding, "No one should be in the ocean."

Hurricane Erin is a huge Category 4 storm and is expected to both grow larger and stronger today as it moves toward the west-northwest. The center of the storm is expected to remain offshore as it moves between the U.S. and Bermuda.