It has caused two deaths, inflicted widespread property damage and closed beaches as far north as NY.
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Hermine is no longer expected to regain hurricane strength, and is now a post-tropical storm that is not expected to have a major impact on the Merrimack Valley or North Central Massachusetts, according to the National Weather Service in Taunton.
Because of concerns about rough seas, unsafe surf and strong storm surge, no swimming was allowed on NY beaches Sunday and Monday.
Post-Tropical Storm Hermine will have an impact on the weather in CT on Monday and possibly into Tuesday.
Hermine hammered Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, but was mostly offshore as it traveled northeast.
But residents are still urged to mindful of the water.
Stretches of the northeast coastline specifically under the tropical storm warning Monday included Long Island from Fire Island Inlet to Port Jefferson Harbor and from New Haven, Connecticut, to Sagamore Beach, Block Island and MA, including Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
Forecasters expected Hermine to meander slowly off the mid-Atlantic coast for a few days.
But for now, its strongest winds were extending outward by about 230 miles (370 km), failing to reach US shores.
Federal officials in NY are investigating an emergency alert system after a mistakenly truncated message about storm system Hermine wrongly advised TV watchers on Long Island of an ordered evacuation, authorities said Sunday.
But for the Merrimack Valley, the storm is likely to cause wind gusts of just 25-30 miles per hour in coming days, and up to a 40 percent chance of rain, which would be beneficial due to recent drought conditions, according to Field.
Forecasters say minor coastal flooding is anticipated during the morning and evening high tide cycles on Monday.
“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 National Hurricane Center said in an advisory.
According to the latest from the National Weather Service, the storm brings a 30 percent chance of showers in Warwick today, likely after 3 p.m.
Since sea levels have risen to a foot because of global warming, the storm surges pushed by Hermine could be even more damaging, climate scientists say.
Michael Mann at Pennsylvania State University noted that the 1-foot sea-level rise in New York City in the past 100 years meant 25 more square miles flooded during Superstorm Sandy, causing billions in additional damage.
“We are already experiencing more and more flooding due to climate change in every storm”, said Michael Oppenheimer, a geosciences professor at Princeton University.
Earlier in Florida, a homeless man died from a falling tree.
No flooding or other damage had been reported as of Monday afternoon in some of the worst Sandy-hit areas, including Point Pleasant Beach, Bay Head, Mantoloking and Brick.
In North Carolina, a tractor trailer overturned on a bridge over the Alligator River, killing the driver.
At least two people have died from the storm.
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“Right now, it’s looking like we’re not having much of any beach fun”, she said.
