Beaches across the MA coast and Cape Cod were hammered by the strong winds and heavy rain Monday.
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A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the coast of Long Island from Fire Island Inlet to Port Jefferson Harbor; New Haven to Sagamore Beach; Block Island, Rhode Island; Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; and Nantucket, Massachusetts.
“It probably won’t have any impact for winds and minimal impacts for rain”.
In New Jersey, tropical storm-force winds could whip up on Labor Day.
A New Jersey resident in the Tweet below explains how at one point, he saw swells 30 to 40 feet while on board.
In the ship’s restaurants, dishes were “going all over the place”, Beidermann said. Numerous passengers reportedly got sea sick while it made its way through the rough waves. “Half the ship is in the room right now over the toilet”, Beidermann said.
Royal Caribbean said in a statement Sunday the ship was continuing to sail “safely to Bermuda”.
Forecasters warned swimmers and boaters along the Eastern Seaboard to stay out of treacherous waters and rough surf churned up by the storm as it chugged on a northwesterly direction. The storm claimed at least three lives, in Florida, North Carolina and SC, but the widespread power outages and flooding that battered Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas had yet to materialize farther north, where alarming news reports scared many tourists away from the beach on Sunday.
A cold frontal boundary impacted the northern tier of the country on Tuesday, while Post-Tropical Cyclone Hermine meandered off of the East Coast.
The meteorologist says the Category 1 hurricane has been downgraded to a post-tropical storm and is projected to continue to lose steam as it hits Canadian waters mid to late next week.
Hermine, with winds at 70 mph, was about 200 miles off the eastern tip of Long Island, the National Hurricane Center said Monday afternoon.
Wind gusts of 35-50 miles per hour were recorded on LI Tuesday morning and there were reports of downed trees and more than 500 PSEG Long Island customers without power as of 9:45 a.m. However, the hurricane is expected to hover over the sea before it again weakens by Tuesday.
Hermine should remain near hurricane strength today. They can turn into powerful hurricanes as they cross the Atlantic on tracks that potentially turn toward the East Coast, posing the greatest threat to the Lowcountry.
Locally, Storm Team 4 reported the greatest risk for unsafe surge is along the western shoreline of Long Island Sound.
Storm system Hermine spun away from the U.S. East Coast on Sunday, removing the threat of heavy rain but maintaining enough power to churn unsafe waves and currents – and keep beaches off-limits to disappointed swimmers and surfers during the holiday weekend. There has been significant oceanfront beach erosion in New Jersey.
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A handful of people came out to the beach near the famous Steel Pier amusement park, mostly to look at the rough seas. Suffolk County declared a state of emergency and Nassau remained on high alert from unsafe storm surges reminiscent of Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.
