Topsail Island, NC (click here) is receiving 4 to 6 foot surf. That is expected to continue until tomorrow morning. Hurricane Gert is perfectly content to sit just east of the southeast coast of the USA.

The coastline at NC falls within what is known as the "Horse Latitudes." It seems as though Gert is proving that fact. The wind is 1 mph. Gert isn't going anywhere.
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August 15, 2017
1030.19z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)

Hurricane Gert and the buoys in the Atlantic. W. Bermuda is receiving 10.4 foot swells.


Woods Hole NW Tropical Atlantic (click here)

The winds have picked up in the Dominican Republic. Even the south island is receiving 10 knot winds. Gert's central pressure is 986 millibars which is a mid-range category 1 hurricane. I am fairly sure with Gert sitting offshore for days now there is beach erosion within it's reach.