Hurricane Milton will continue to move away from the US and into the Atlantic, but nearly 10 million people along the Atlantic coast will still face dangerous coastal conditions today and early Friday.
Coastal areas of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina are under high surf and rip current alerts due to dangerous rip currents and large breaking waves. Waves could be quite large: up to five metres in north-east Florida, up to three feet in southeastern Florida, up to 3.6 metres in Georgia and up to 2.1 metres for North and South Carolina.
Dangerous swimming and surfing conditions and localized beach erosion will be the main impacts.
“Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water,” the National Weather Service office in Charleston, South Carolina, says.
Conditions will gradually improve on Friday as Hurricane Milton moves further from the coast into the Atlantic on Friday, but high surf and dangerous rip currents will continue due to lingering swells from the storm.
