Monday, September 5, 2016

Hermine Drifts Past Northeast, Threatening Storm Surge and 70 MPH Winds

Storm warnings were in effect Monday from Long Island to Nantucket as post-Tropical Cyclone Hermine drifted slowly up the Atlantic, promising near hurricane-strength winds, floods and beach erosion.

The National Weather Service said large waves will pound the East Coast from the mid-Atlantic states to southern New England through the end of Labor Day. Life-threatening rip currents are expected at least into the middle of the week, it added.

At 11 a.m. ET, Hermine was about 230 miles southeast of the eastern tip of Long Island, N.Y. The storm was moving northwest at 6 mph and expected to will "meander slowly offshore of the New England coast through Tuesday," according to the National Weather Service. 

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