The organization lifted the Tropical Storm warning for the city Sunday night, but officials said Hermine could still bring high winds and rip currents to the coast and beaches remained closed to swimmers on Monday.
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Hermine has killed two people since striking the Florida coast as a hurricane on Friday, September 2, before weakening to tropical-storm status as it moved northward off the US East Coast.
Hermine, a storm that raked Florida with hurricane-force winds last week, drifted far off the U.S. East Coast on Monday, sparing the Middle Atlantic states but forcing some beach closures.
Hermine has spared New Jersey its worst fears, although the post-tropical cyclone is leaving its mark this Labor Day.
Forecasters were unsure of which track it would take, but MA was always expected to get the residual impact of the tail end of the storm’s trek north. Sustained winds of 32 miles per hour were observed as far north of the storm as Nantucket, Massachusetts.
By 5 a.m. Sunday, Hermine’s top sustained winds remained at 65 miles per hour (100 kph) as it moved east-northeast at 12 miles per hour (19 kph).
High winds tipped over this18-wheeler, killing its driver and shutting down the US64 bridge in North Carolina.
Earlier in Florida, a homeless man died from a falling tree.
It was classified as a Category 1hurricane until it lost strength while cutting across Florida and Georgia, but forecasters expected winds to return to hurricane force of 119 kmph by Sunday evening.
The storm churns up waves and clouds a Labor Day weekend. NY governor Andrew Cuomo has activated the state emergency operations center, and coastal Suffolk County on Long Island has declared a state of emergency.
For now, its strongest winds were extending outward by about 230 miles (370 km), failing to reach USA shores.
Hermine was expected to lose forward speed and then “meander” offshore of the mid-Atlantic coast into yesterday, the center said. But he said he wasn’t aware of any buildings that were actually flooded in his neighborhood. “We built dunes during the week, and what we did with the other sand here, we just pushed it up to the boardwalk”, said OEM Coordinator Bill Hibell.
In North Carolina, the National Park Service has reopened visitor centers and campgrounds along the Outer Banks closed as Hermine moved through the area. “The most unsafe aspect to the storm is going to be to the beaches”. “While these impacts will not be as significant, they remain our biggest concern moving forward for this area”.
Overnight, four people suffered minor injuries when a tornado hit a campground in Hatteras Village, Dare County, North Carolina, officials said.
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“If you weren’t in the flood prone area, it was like a normal day”, he said.
