After a weekend of staggering strengthening, Hurricane Erin remained a major hurricane Monday on its path skirting away from the United States. And following behind in the Atlantic is another system the National Hurricane Center has given a medium chance of further development.

Island communities off the coast of North Carolina are bracing for flooding ahead of the year’s first Atlantic hurricane, Hurricane Erin. Although forecasters are confident that the storm won’t make direct landfall in the United States,

Erin is a Category 4 hurricane again, the National Hurricane Center said in its 11 p.m. ET update Sunday, with sustained winds of 130 mph and tropical storm-force winds reaching out 230 miles. The storm was just under a thousand miles southeast of Cape Hatteras,