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Hurricane Erin back at Category 4, will bring dangerous surf to East Coast

Evacuation orders have been posted in the Outer Banks of North Carolina because of potential coastal flooding

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Category 4 Hurricane Erin was located fewer than 900 miles from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on Monday morning. (Ben Noll/Data source: NOAA/NESDIS)
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Hurricane Erin has restrengthened into a Category 4 storm, with dangerous coastal conditions expected along the Eastern Seaboard, Bermuda and Atlantic Canada this week.

As of Monday morning, Erin had winds of 130 mph and was passing just over 100 miles offshore of Turks and Caicos and the eastern Bahamas, where a tropical storm warning was in place for threats of flooding, landslides and mudslides.

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Ben Noll is a meteorologist passionate about explaining the why behind the weather, extreme events and climate trends. He has expertise in data analysis, supercomputer-driven graphics and forecasting weather worldwide.@BenNollWeather
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Matthew Cappucci is a meteorologist for Capital Weather Gang. He earned a B.A. in atmospheric sciences from Harvard University in 2019, and has contributed to The Washington Post since he was 18. He is an avid storm chaser and adventurer, and covers all types of weather, climate science, and astronomy.@MatthewCappucci
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