Hurricane Erin's push up alongside the east coast is bringing rough seas and high winds to Cape Cod and the Islands, disrupting ferry travel in the waning weeks of summer.

TRACKING ERIN Hurricane Erin will pass over 200 miles off the coast of Massachusetts tonight. Southern New England will NOT see direct impacts like rain or tropical or hurricane force winds. It will see blustery and wavy conditions which peak today and tonight.

All south-facing beaches on Nantucket were closed to swimming Tuesday due to high surf from the approaching Hurricane Erin, the island’s harbormaster said.

Erin has become an unusually large and deceptively worrisome storm, with its tropical storm winds stretching 230 miles from its core.

Hurricane Erin stays offshore but brings rip currents, high surf and gusty winds to East Coast beaches through Friday. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

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. The monster storm inched closer to

Hurricane Erin won’t make landfall along the Massachusetts coastline, but you can already see the impacts. Nantucket’s Emergency Management Office already sent out a warning for the hazardous conditions along the beach. And South Shore beaches are ...

A new storm could bring rain across most of Massachusetts on Wednesday, but Hurricane Erin could also make waters off the coast dangerous.