Hermine rose over the Gulf of Mexico and hit Florida on Friday as a Category 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm across Georgia.
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Anthem of the seas recording gusts of 90 knot winds.
“By 2-3 o’clock in the afternoon, the sun was shining, people were on the beach and business was as usual”, Davis said.
As of Monday night, the NHC maintained tropical storm warnings for the coast of Long Island from Fire Island Inlet to Port Jefferson Harbor, from New Haven, Conn., to Sagamore Beach, Mass., Block Island, Rhode Island, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
Rip current threats were issued for the coastline of NY, even though it appeared to have weakened and tropical storm warnings for the city were cancelled.
It might not have taken the path forecasters expected, but post-tropical storm Hermine finally made its presence felt Tuesday on Long Island, spawning strong wind gusts, coastal flooding and some power outages.
A “slow north-northwestward motion” was predicted through Monday, and the hurricane center said Hermine’s center would “meander slowly offshore of the Mid-Atlantic coast for the next couple of days”.
“People from NY and New Jersey are kind of stuck here (during bad weather), so they can still come”, if forecasts don’t play out as predicted, Khan said. “We are taking it trip by trip at this time”, Hy-Line Cruises said in a Twitter message.
The long holiday weekend has been cut short for some as Hermine puts a damper on vacation plans to Cape Cod and the islands. County emergency services said that the river may pass into a major flood stage.
Winds are expected to pick up around noon Monday, with sustained winds over 20 miles per hour likely through Tuesday afternoon.
Storm-surge inundation levels of no more than one to three feet (30 cm to 1 m) were expected in coastal areas. And Gould said strong riptide might be the most unsafe result of Hermine. Overall, it really doesn’t look like much rainfall will come from this storm.
High winds tipped over an 18-wheeler on Saturday, killing its driver and shutting down the USA 64 bridge in North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
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One person died in Florida as Hermine approached. But most people were cleaning up trees and branches felled by the storm. The order included the state capital of Tallahassee, home to tens of thousands of state workers.
