There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.

SURF: Large swells generated by Epsilon will affect Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, the Leeward Islands, the east coast of the United States, and Atlantic Canada during the next couple of days. These swells are likely to cause lifethreatening surf and rip current conditions. Please consult products from your local weather office.

At 500 AM AST (0900 UTC), the center of Hurricane Epsilon was located near latitude 42.8 North, longitude 53.7 West. Epsilon is moving toward the northeast near 30 mph (48 km/h). A continued northeastward acceleration is expected through Monday.

Maximum sustained winds are near 75 mph (120 km/h) with higher gusts. Little overall change in strength is forecast this morning. Epsilon is expected to become a large and powerful posttropical cyclone later today.

Hurricaneforce winds extend outward up to 45 miles (75 km) from the center and tropicalstormforce winds extend outward up to 380 miles (610 km).

The estimated minimum central pressure is 960 mb (28.35 inches).

Although the cloud pattern of Epsilon is beginning to expand over the northwestern portion of the circulation as the hurricane begins its extratropical transition, the storm continues to produce inner-core convection. Recent shortwave infrared satellite imagery suggest that there is some northeast-to-southwest tilt between the mid- and low-level centers. Since there has been little overall change in the inner-core structure since the previous advisory, the initial intensity is held at 65 kt in agreement with the earlier ASCAT data.

Epsilon is moving north of the north wall of the Gulf Stream and will be over much colder SSTs later this morning. This, along with an approaching baroclinic zone, should cause Epsilon to quickly lose its tropical characteristics and become an extratropical low by later today. The post-tropical cyclone is expected to remain a large and powerful cyclone over the north Atlantic during the next day or so. The global models indicate that the post-tropical cyclone will be absorbed by a large extratropical low over the north Atlantic within 48 hours.

The hurricane continues to accelerate northeastward, with an initial motion estimate of 050/26 kt. A continued northeastward acceleration is expected through tonight, and rather faster northeastward motion is forecast until the post-tropical cyclone is absorbed by the larger extratropical low Monday night. The track guidance remains tightly clustered and the new NHC forecast track is essentially an update of the previous advisory.