India, Aug. 21 -- Hurricane Erin, the first named hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season, is keeping much of the East Coast on edge this week.

While the storm is not expected to make landfall in the United States, its size and strength have already triggered evacuation orders in North Carolina's Outer Banks and warnings up and down the coast.

As of late Wednesday night, Erin was classified as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami.

The storm's center was located about 215 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and 485 miles west of Bermuda, moving north at 16 mph.

The hurricane's outer bands were already "brushing" parts of the Outer Ban...