At 11 a.m. Saturday, the storm was about 295 miles south-southeast of Long Island, New York and about 310 miles east-southeast of Ocean City, Maryland.
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Lee and Gary Moulton walk from their home along what is left of a road that was destroyed by Hurricane Hermine in the Alligator Point community of Franklin County, Fla., Friday, Sept. 2, 2016.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Sunday morning advised residents to take precautions as a tropical storm makes its way toward CT.
The weather service said Hermine’s current maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour would probably reach 75 mph – classifying it again as a category-one hurricane – between now and Tuesday morning, September 6.
Dennis Feltgen of the National Hurricane Center said Sunday “We’re not looking at a landfall”, adding Hermine is just sitting and pushing the water up along the coast making storm surge a great concern.
Robert McHugh, a New Jersey co-founder of online payment service Paydunk, posted a harrowing series of videos Sunday from the Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency Friday under the potential threat of damaging high winds, heavy rainfall and a risky storm surge and flooding.
Labor Day visitors to beaches along the Jersey Shore could expect mostly cloudy skies and gusty winds, but dry conditions, Gaines said. “Something is going to happen”. County beaches are also closed elsewhere on Long Island.
“Hermine is moving towards the northeast and is expected to turn northward later today, followed by a turn northwestward late Sunday night”, ABC News meteorologist Dan Manzo said. High tide in North Wildwood is expected at about 10:30am with flooding taking about an hour longer to occur. It spawned a tornado in North Carolina and closed beaches as far north as NY. Emergency managers issued mandatory evacuations for some low-lying mobile home parks and apartment buildings.
Michael Mann of the Pennsylvania State University noted that this century’s one-foot sea-level rise in New York City meant 25 more square miles flooded during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, causing billions more in damage.
The winds became so strong that state transportation officials closed all bridges to North Carolina’s Outer Banks after a deadly accident over the intracoastal waterway.
The death brings the storm’s casualties to two, after a homeless man was killed by a falling tree Friday in Florida.
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But for now, its strongest winds were extending outward by about 230 miles (370 km), failing to reach USA shores. Major beach erosion with heavy surf breaching the dunes is also in the cards. But no flooding or other damage was reported in those areas.
