Ernesto becomes Category 1 hurricane again; dangerous conditions for East Coast beaches

High surf and life-threatening rip currents persist each on the East Coast.

Ernesto was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane connected Sunday night, with the National Hurricane Center informing of unsafe conditions for East Coast beaches.

The hurricane -- which implicit the past week has caused large powerfulness outages and flooding successful Puerto Rico and Bermuda -- is retired implicit the Atlantic, with maximum sustained winds up to 75 mph.

The NHC expects Ernesto to transverse southeastern Newfoundland precocious Monday into Tuesday morning.

Ernesto is the 5th named tempest and the 3rd hurricane of this year's Atlantic season. It made landfall successful Bermuda aboriginal connected Saturday, dumping 7 to 9 inches of rainfall and flooding parts of the island. The British Overseas Territory avoided large damage, and Ernesto is present immoderate 200 miles northeast of Bermuda.

High surf and life-threatening rip currents are inactive anticipated implicit the adjacent mates of days on the U.S. East Coast.

The full Atlantic seashore from Florida to Maine is nether a high-risk rip existent alert connected Sunday.

"Life-threatening surf and rip existent conditions are likely," the National Hurricane Center warned, "which means life-threatening rip currents are likely, and unsafe for each levels of swimmers."