Despite being hundreds of miles offshore, Hurricane Ernesto has had a significant impact along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. The storm's effects were felt on Saturday with dangerous rip currents leading to the closure of public beaches during a busy summer weekend. High surf and swells caused damage along the coast, including the collapse of an unoccupied beach house in North Carolina.
The National Hurricane Center reported that Ernesto, which made landfall in Bermuda, remains a large hurricane with a wide footprint of seas and waves affecting the central Florida Atlantic coastline up to Long Island, New York. This has resulted in high seas and significant rip current threats along the eastern U.S. coastline.
