The storm is expected to move towards Atlantic Canada but may weaken before reaching there, sparing the eastern provinces of heavy tropical wind and rainstorms.
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A weaker Hermine edged closer to the East Coast on Tuesday, so weak that the National Hurricane Center dropped all tropical storm warnings and said it was issuing its last advisory on the long-lived system. On the forecast track, the center of Hermine will meander slowly offshore of the New England coast through Tuesday.
“This is not what people wanted to see for the holiday weekend”, AccuWeather meteorologist Dan Kottlowski said Monday.
“Don’t be lulled by the nice weather”, Christie said, referring to the bright sunny skies along the Jersey Shore on Sunday afternoon.
The tropical storm conditions that were originally predicted through Wednesday are no longer in the forecast for most of the Island. A tropical storm warning was in effect from New York’s Long Island to MA.
But to the federal and state authorities, wind speed was only part of the riddle of Hermine, which seemed ready a little over a week ago to disintegrate without becoming a named storm.
Kottlowski described Hermine as a hybrid between a tropical system and a nor’easter whose biggest threats remain high winds and risky waves as tall as 15 feet. Gusts as high as 32 miles per hour were forecast in Atlantic City later Tuesday.
“[The storm] scared a lot of people off, they didn’t want to be here and get trapped on the island”, Copley said. The animation of infrared and visible images from NOAA’s GOES-East satellite shows very little movement from September 4 through September 6 at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 UTC).
Governors all along the coast announced emergency preparations.
However, forecasters are warning of unsafe rip currents along the New Jersey shore caused by Hermine.
Meanwhile, in the Pacific, Hurricane Newton made landfall early Tuesday near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with winds of 90 miles per hour. Newton threatened to strike near the resorts of Los Cabos.
At least three deaths associated with Hermine have been reported as the storm moves along the East Coast.
Hermine’s position Monday southeast of Nantucket created 20-foot waves and wind gusts of up to 50 kph about 55 miles southeast of the island, Buttrick said.
The closure comes as a precaution measure as Tropical Storm Hermine enters the area.
Air crews from Air Station Cape Cod have been flying into the storm for the past few days to gather data and broadcast warnings to off-shore mariners.
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Beaches across the MA coast and Cape Cod were hammered by the strong winds and heavy rain Monday.
