Effects of Hurricane Erin to be felt at Jersey shore this week

Brigantine, NJ (WPVI) – Officials Along

With an elevated rip current risk expected through the week, the wildwood beach patrol has issued a no-sawimming Order until further notice.

Simply put, if you rented a place down the shore this week, your timing could have been working.

Mike Morrell, Assistant Chief of the brigantine beach patrol, say this is just the beginning.

While Hurricane Erin is not expected to make landfall along the East Coast, Rough Surf and Dangerous rip currents will person.

“This week is going to be a bad week,” Morrel said. “The whole week, probally until friday.

Just Past Noon on Monday, as Morrel Was Giving Action News a Tour of Conditions Along Brigantine’s Beaches, Word Came in that Wildfood Officials Were Closing Their Beaches.

Morrell noted that ONECE One Beach Closes, others along the coast typically Follow Suit.

At the water’s edge, three young people tried to make the best of a bad situation.

“There are little bubbles, I guess, from the wind,” said Jemma saffioti of pitman, nj “we wa was stepping on them and jumping on them like a game. That’s what I was yelling at them for. “

ABC News Video from Puerto Rico Shows How Bad Conditions could have been there But officials warn that beachgoers should still stay on out of the water.

“You should go in the water today, or the next couple of days until the story is over,” Morrel said. “If you do go in, keep it ankle deep. Anything further than that, a rip current can take you right out-et-et-even at knee-deep.”

The Worst Conditions are expected wedding and Thursday, with winds reaching 30 to 40 mph and waves as high as 8 to 10 feet.