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, portions of 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 1100 AM AST (1500 UTC), the center of Hurricane Epsilon was located near latitude 44.3 North, longitude 49.4 West. Epsilon is moving toward the eastnortheast near 35 mph (56 km/h). A faster eastnortheastward to northeastward motion is expected later tonight through Monday.

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

Hurricaneforce winds extend outward up to 0 miles (0 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).

Epsilon continues its extratropical transition, as the cloud tops near the center of circulation are warming while the cloud pattern continues to expand over the northern portion of the circulation. The initial intensity is being held at 65 kt for this advisory based on early morning ASCAT data. Partial data from a more recent scatterometer pass also suggested this intensity.

The cyclone is now moving over waters of only 17 degrees C and the waters ahead of the system are even cooler than that. Epsilon is also interacting with a baroclinic zone as evidenced by a large area of cool and stable air stratocumulus wrapping around the southwestern portion of the circulation. These factors should cause what remains of the inner-core convection to weaken over the next several hours, and the system should complete its extratropical transition by tonight. The post-tropical cyclone will remain large and powerful for the next day or so until it is absorbed by another large extratropical low over the north Atlantic in about 36-48 h.

Epsilon is moving quickly east-northeastward at around 30 kt. The cyclone is expected to accelerate even more today, with a fast east-northeastward or northeastward motion expected until the system is absorbed by the other low. The latest NHC forecast track is little changed from the previous one and lies in the middle of the tightly clustered consensus guidance.