Hermine has appeared on NOAA’s list of potential storm names since the permanent naming scheme was developed in 1979.
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NY officials have extended beach closures beyond Labor Day because of risky rip currents.
“It’s going to be pretty to watch from the beach but I wouldn’t go out into the water”, Bunker said.
Locally, Storm Team 4 reported the greatest risk for risky surge is along the western shoreline of Long Island Sound.
Tropical Storm Hermine stalled off the US East Coast south-east of the eastern tip of Long Island but it was still strong enough late Monday to cause strong winds, rough surf and risky rip currents along hundreds of kilometres of US shoreline.
Meanwhile, “a tropical wave expected to leave the coast of Africa on Tuesday could develop into a tropical depression by next weekend”, said meteorologists Jeff Masters and Bob Henson, of Weather Underground.
The ban had been in place since Sunday, when Hermine was expected to hit the tri-state with heavy rain and wind.
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. The remainder of the eastern half of the Untied States is under the influence of a ridge of high pressure.
Conditions are extremely dry thanks to below-average rainfall. Warnings of potentially unsafe riptides temporarily cleared the water Monday, but a couple of dozen beachgoers and a handful of surfers returned to the water in Atlantic City by the afternoon.
Until it eases, however, they warned of storm surges with large, unsafe waves, and winds of up to 70 miles per hour from Long Island to Cape Cod in MA, through Tuesday.
Hermine is slowly dying off the East Coast, but the storm continues to cause problems ranging from beach erosion to coastal flooding and rip currents.
“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.
Forecasters expected Hermine to linger off the Middle Atlantic states and southern New England before gradually weakening by Tuesday morning.
By Sunday night, the National Hurricane Center said the storm was moving about 5 mph out to sea, about 370 miles east of Ocean City, Maryland, and 325 miles southeast of the eastern tip of Long Island.
While many communities felt like they dodged a bullet, the threat of Hermine caused many vacationers to cancel their holiday plans.
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.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said they will remain off-limits to swimmers and surfers on Monday, too.
