But for now its strongest winds were extending outward by about 230 miles, failing to reach USA shores, the NHC said.
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New York City planned to close its beaches Monday because of rip currents, and the ban could extend into Tuesday, depending on weather conditions, officials said.
Up to 18cm of rain fell and 50-to-100km/h winds blew from North Carolina to the Eastern Shore, chasing tourists and disrupting Labour Day weekend plans as the United States bade farewell to the summer season.
The storm slowed down throughout the day, from 12 miles per hour during the day Sunday to 5 miles per hour during the evening.
As of Sunday at 5 p.m. ET, the National Weather Service reported the storm was slowing, moving east-northeast about 5 miles per hour.
The storm was projected to dump up to 7 inches (18 cm) of rain in southeast Virginia and Atlantic coastal parts of Maryland and up to 4 inches (10 cm) in southern DE, southern and eastern New Jersey and Long Island, Brown said.
Beaches throughout East Hampton are closed to swimming as Tropical Storm Hermine moves up the coast, though after changing course slightly overnight it is expected to be less intense.
On Friday, before hitting the Atlantic, Hermine rolled out of the Gulf of Mexico and across northern Florida as the first hurricane to hit the state in over a decade.
The storm has caused two deaths, damaged properties and left hundreds of thousands without electricity from Florida to Virginia. All Town pools and beaches will remain closed until further notice.
But Hermine was not expected to make landfall again, said Robbie Berg, an official of the National Hurricane Center. Hogan on Friday declared a state of emergency in the counties of the Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland, including Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, Worcester, Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary’s.
Downgraded to a tropical cyclone, the storm is creeping to the northeastern United States and could strengthen back in to a hurricane.
The timing couldn’t be worse for communities along the coast hoping for revenue from Labor Day events.
Normally, Suffolk County uses another system that sends out emergency messages and mass notifications through text messages or reverse 911 calls to landlines, Miniutto said.
In Keaton Beach, about two dozen people waited on a road just after sunrise on Friday, trying to get to their homes. “Yesterday was a lovely day”. “We are reminding people to refrain from going into the water”.
The flooding was seen in several spots along Highway 12 Saturday morning. It appears there will be little to no rain. But we certainly wouldn’t recommend hanging out at any local beach right now. “Even if the bands of clouds and rain stay over the ocean, a high risk for rip currents will accompany some pretty big waves and possibly… coastal flooding”. “It’s risky”, Broudy said in a telephone interview.
Tropical storm Hermine arrives in Rehoboth Beach.
“They’ve never lived anything like this”, said Shockley, who has been in business since 1988. “Almost getting blown away from this storm on the boardwalk in Ocean City was so worth it for Dunkin Donuts”, Twitter user Jessica wrote from a Maryland resort town.
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“Rainfall will be locally heavy – expecting 1-2” of rain for the Cape and Islands, dropping off to under an inch in Boston and nearly nothing North of MA.
