After post-tropical cylone Erin moves out to sea and two other systems fizzle out, the tropics will take a short break. But forecasters warn that it’s far too soon to let your guard down

Erin’s surf and storm surge could cause erosion along sections of the Florida and East Coast and shapes up as potentially worse for North Carolina’s barrier islands, which are under mandatory evacuation orders ahead of the four feet of storm surge and 20-foot offshore waves Erin is expected to bring.

Even though there have been more than 2,700 wildfires in Florida so far this year, a fire in Broward County that was still ongoing on Friday is by far the largest, while most of them are human-caused.

As a whole, the Old Farmer’s Almanac says that temperatures in Florida will average around 82 degrees in September, about one degree above the normal average. The Almanac separates the western Florida Panhandle, where it expects temperatures to average around 79 degrees—about two degrees above normal.

South Florida saw the indirect impacts of Hurricane Erin. The NEXT Weather team said through Saturday there will be an increased risk of swells, rip currents and higher tides.

Thunderstorms and rain continue to sweep across Florida after Hurricane Erin veered away at the last moment and passed by the Sunshine State with relatively minor impact. Dangerous rip current warnings are still in place as the passing storm causes massive waves and irregular patterns in the water.

Hurricane Erin on Wednesday grew in size as it made its way up into the Atlantic off the U.S. East Coast with tropical-storm conditions forecast to hit North Carolina and dangerous surf left

Hurricane Erin continues to churn in the Atlantic waters hundreds of miles off the U.S., prompting officials to close beaches along the East Coast from the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast.