Maximum sustained winds were 70 miles per hour as it moved northwest at 6 miles per hour.
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Beach renourishment will resume on Hilton Head Island Tuesday after Tropical Storm Hermine postponed the project last week. “It’s going to curl back toward the coast, but as it does so it’s going to weaken”, said Jim Bunker with the Mount Holly, N.J., branch of the National Weather Service.
Most of the Southeast and the Deep South stayed clear of wet weather, with the exception to scattered storms along southern Florida and parts of the Gulf Coast.
New York City officials have extended beach closures beyond Labor Day, citing continued deadly rip currents caused by storm system Hermine.
A tropical storm warning remained in effect Sunday night from the DE and New Jersey shores north to New York’s Long Island and beyond to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Island off MA, but was canceled for New York City, which Berg said appeared largely out of harm’s way. Tropical-storm warnings were still in place Monday night for coastal areas of CT and Rhode Island as well as Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, Mass.
“Tropical storm conditions are expected over portions of the warning area today”, NHC notes in the bulletin. “As we have learned in the past, it is always best to be prepared”.
HyLine’s Nantucket service is boat-by-boat and there will be no Hyannis to Vineyard ferries or the inter-island ferry Tuesday.
The bigger impact is in southeastern CT towns like Old Saybrook and East Lyme where hundreds have lost power, according to Eversource. For now, we have a small chance for rain in the forecast late Saturday into Sunday. Ellerbe said that other than for numerous fallen trees and downed power lines, the damage was minimal, given the storm’s size, intensity and expected impact.
Hermine was forecast to bring up to 2 inches of rain to Rhode Island and southern MA through Wednesday.
The Fairfield County shoreline does have a coastal flood advisory for high tides that are forecast to be about two feet above normal.
The tropical storm warning is still in effect off the coast of New Jersey, and gusts as high as 32 miles per hour were in forecast for Atlantic City later Tuesday.
“It’s not a ideal day, but we’re appreciative that people heeded our warnings”. “We have power outages and trees down, but I don’t see the kind of damage that would have usually occurred with this type of storm”, Ellerbe said.
“Our beaches took a pretty good beating”, he said.
Officials are warning of more rough surf and riptides Tuesday in ME and New Hampshire.
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A medical examiner’s office has yet to determine whether the storm was the cause, Florida Gov. Rick Scott said.
