Tropical Storm Eight, which may be named Helene some time today, will move ashore today near Myrtle Beach, S.C., and then move northwest and diminish in intensity. The persistent onshore winds will cause rough surf, rip currents and beach erosion for coastal areas through mid-week.

A tropical rainstorm that forecasters say could strengthen into a named storm this weekend is on a path toward the mid-Atlantic.

Heavy winds and rains from a storm in the Atlantic that wasn’t quite organized enough to get a name hit a stretch of the southeastern U.S. coast