{"id":167086,"date":"2025-08-22T18:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167086\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:03:14","slug":"city-warns-against-swimming-as-hurricane-churns-offshore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167086\/","title":{"rendered":"City warns against swimming as hurricane churns offshore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Erin, churning offshore Friday, sent powerful waves and rip currents crashing onto New York City\u2019s beaches, prompting officials to ban swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Beachgoers were still allowed on the sand, but city officials said surf conditions were too dangerous to enter the water. At Rockaway Beach, the warnings didn\u2019t stop surfers, who called the conditions ideal.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hurricane Erin, churning offshore Friday, sent powerful waves and rip currents crashing onto New York City\u2019s beaches<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Beachgoers were still allowed on the sand, but city officials said surf conditions were too dangerous to enter the water<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>At Rockaway Beach, the warnings didn\u2019t stop surfers, who called the conditions ideal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cYou see the waves are breaking top to bottom,\u201d said Christopher Gaby, who was surfing near Beach 84th Street Friday. \u201cI mean, obviously, it\u2019s not a day for swimming. You know, this is for surfers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some described the surf as unlike anything normally seen in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooks like Hawaii out there, looks like Indonesia,\u201d said Jeffrey Wrentschler, another surfer watching from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said waves could reach up to 16 feet along parts of the coastline. New York City Emergency Management urged residents to avoid the water, warning that rip currents can quickly pull even experienced swimmers away from shore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe danger for me is I\u2019m gonna get yelled at by the surfers that are much better than me,\u201d Wrentschler joked.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Kern, who used to live in New York and returned from Maryland for the storm, said he did not want to miss the opportunity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe winds are really good, you can see that the water is not choppy at all, and the waves are really smooth and clean,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Even seasoned surfers acknowledged the hazards. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a big current ripping so you gotta keep moving, or you\u2019ll be halfway down the beach in a minute,\u201d said Connor Brala. \u201cNot the day to try to learn how to surf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some surfers said they were hoping the storm would stay far enough offshore to bring waves without serious flooding or damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what we wait for all year around,\u201d Gaby said. \u201cThis is the best time, coming into now, until the winter. And even the winter is good too. But this is hurricane season and especially when they stay offshore like this, and they bring good waves and really not a lot of flooding here to New York and damage, we\u2019re stoked for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane season, which peaks in about two weeks, runs until the end of November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricane Erin, churning offshore Friday, sent powerful waves and rip currents crashing onto New York City\u2019s beaches, prompting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7448,7364,405,403,50,5226,5225,95983,5228,5227,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-167086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-app-weather","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-noorulain-khawaja","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115073738713429602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}