Though Hermine’s track had shifted away from the East Coast by Monday morning, the choppy waves and strong winds were still felt near coastal towns on Long Island and the Jersey Shore.
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“People should still not underestimate it”, he said.
There are many disappointed swimmers and surfers as some beaches are off-limits this Labour Day Weekend.
Rip currents and waves reaching 9 to 13 feet were expected along the coasts of DE and New Jersey through Tuesday, putting a damper on any seaside Labor Day celebrations.
The remnants of Hermine churned up the seas Monday and lashed the Cape and Islands with high winds and rain.
Nationwide the storm caused three deaths, inflicted widespread property damage and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people from Florida to Virginia, the Associated Press reported.
Aside from a noticeable breeze, some extra clouds and the chance for a few showers, Western Massachusetts will remain relatively untouched by the power of Post-Tropical Cyclone Hermine.
Hermine has stalled now and is creeping north at 3 miles per hour. The remainder of the eastern half of the Untied States is under the influence of a ridge of high pressure.
And conditions in the Atlantic aren’t ripe at the moment for another storm to form, with dry air and shearing winds in their way.
A man and a woman arrives at the Virginia Beach boardwalk in Virginia Beach, Va., Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016.
Officials warned about unsafe rip currents and high surf, which are possible through mid-week.
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.
The storm was anticipated to bring heavy rain and high winds with the potential for risky rip currents and coastal flooding, but tracked farther east, missing the impact zone for most of the tri-state area.
“It was a little overhyped by the media”, said Andrew Thulin, assistant general manager of Daddy O Hotel Restaurant in the New Jersey township of Long Beach. Coastal flooding was reported at high tide early Tuesday in some areas.
The storm, Hermine, which made landfall last week has been downgraded from a category one hurricane, to a tropical storm, to what’s called a post-tropical cyclone.
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Masbahul Islam, a pedicab driver who has worked in Atlantic City for six years, said the Labor Day crowd is much smaller than in years past.
