Officials are urging visitors to begin evacuating at 10 a.m. Monday from Hurricane Evacuation Zone A, which includes the unincorporated villages of Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon, Buxton, Frisco and Hatteras. Residents are to begin evacuating at 8 a.m. Tuesday.

"High level clouds from the outflow of #HurricaneErin can be seen looking southeast from the summit of Mount Washington today," the observatory wrote. "The storm will stay well offshore, generating only high level clouds like these across the horizon of the White Mountains today and tomorrow."

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Hurricane Erin has battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes.

As Hurricane Erin heads out to sea, forecasters are also watching the next weather disturbance which could become Tropical Storm Fernand.

Hurricane Erin was a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph as it made its closest approach to the U.S.

Users were impressed by the perspective captured in the viral post, with one describing it as "beautiful and terrifying."

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