The storm is generating heavy rains, strong winds, and powerful waves from the Mid-Atlantic region to southern New England, which pose the greatest danger to coastal cities and beaches.
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As expected, we’re getting minimal effects from Post-Tropical Storm Hermine.
“Not much left of Hermine, just enough to trigger occasional 40 mile an hour gusts at Block Island” in Rhode Island, forecasters wrote early Tuesday.
A tropical storm warning remains in effect for Suffolk County on Long Island as well as southern New Haven, southern Middlesex and southern New London counties in CT.
Hermine rose over the Gulf of Mexico and hit Florida on Friday as a Category 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm as it moved across Georgia.
(Sept. 3, 2016, update 8:37 p.m.) Nantucket is now under a tropical-storm watch due to Tropical Storm Hermine, which is expected to begin impacting the island by Sunday evening and could last through Thursday, emergency-preparedness coordinator Dave Fronzuto said Saturday. Umbrellas and canopies dotted the sand under partly sunny skies.
Environment officials say Maritimers should brace themselves for blustery weather during the first week of school, as post-tropical storm Hermine makes it way up the East Coast.
Parks officials say beaches will be closed to swimming, bathing and surfing on Tuesday. The storm was centered about 230 miles (365 kilometers) southeast of the eastern tip of Long Island. “It was awful”, she said.
Michael Mann at Pennsylvania State University said the one-foot rise that New York City has experienced over the past century caused an additional 25 square miles and several billions of dollars of damage with Superstorm Sandy.
“We are already experiencing more and more flooding due to climate change in every storm”, said Michael Oppenheimer, a geosciences professor at Princeton University.
Potential storm-surge inundation levels of no more than 1 to 3 feet (30 cm to 1 m) were expected in coastal areas.
Tyrrell County Sheriff Darryl Liverman told the Virginian-Pilot that high winds tipped over an 18-wheeler, killing its driver and shutting down the USA 64 bridge.
“It was unusual monitoring the storm, and then the sun comes out and Sunday was a lovely day”, he said.
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In Florida, a homeless man in Marion County was hit by a falling tree and was killed. The ramp to the dinghy dock on the north side of the town pier will be secured and there will be no access after Sunday’s high tide, Lucey said.
