Tropical Storm Hermine is making for some choppy waters in Long Island Sound, causing the Coast Guard to make multiple rescues over Labor Day weekend.
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“This is not what people wanted to see for the holiday weekend”, AccuWeather meteorologist Dan Kottlowski said Monday.
The National Weather Service has continued a “Tropical Storm Warning” Tuesday for coastal CT and the NWS has issued a local hurricane statement for Fairfield County due to potential wind gusts and flooding.
“I was really surprised”, said Amber Johnson, who is from SC, about the number of people at Atlantic Beach.
“The combination of a storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline”, the Hurricane Center said in a morning advisory. “The oceans around Cape Cod and so on are still going to be very rough”.
There were scattered reports of minor wind damage across the area, ranging from power lines down in Edgartown, a large branch down on Barn Hill Rd.in Chatham and a fallen tree on Spring Hill Rd.in East Sandwich.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declared a state of emergency Saturday for Ocean, Atlantic and Cape May counties.
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.
Newton formed off Mexico’s Pacific Coast and is headed toward Baja California. Newton threatened to strike near the resorts of Los Cabos.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Newton will move northward over the Baja California Peninsula.
The Weather Channel said this morning that the winds from Hermine, now a post-tropical cyclone, are expected to subside, but near the coast there could continue to be gusts as high as 50 miles per hour throughout the day today.
Newton was located about 215 miles southeast of Cabo San Lucas Monday evening.
Weather experts have warned that it could again be upgraded to hurricane, even as beaches remained closed amidst storm warnings.
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Hermine, which came ashore in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, has now been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone by the National Hurricane Center but that does not mean electric utilities in the Northeast are in the clear. Thousands of homes and businesses lost power. Hermine spun away from the U.S. East Coast on Sunday, removing the threat of heavy rain but maintaining enough power to churn risky waves and currents and keep beaches off-limits to disappointed swimmers and surfers during the holiday weekend.
