Hurricane Jose is traveling up the East Coast, and there is now a tropical storm warning for New England
Hurricane
Jose is traveling up the East Coast of the US and could
affect an area from North Carolina to New England, according to
the latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center.
The NHC has issued a tropical storm warning for parts of New
England from Watch Hill, Rhode Island, to Hull, Massachusetts,
including Block Island, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket,
as of 2 p.m. ET on Monday. Those areas can expect
tropical storm conditions within the next 36 hours.
Jose’s center will most likely stay out at sea, but the
NHC reported that parts of the US were already feeling
dangerous surf and rip currents because of the storm. Swells from
Jose are also affecting the Bahamas, Bermuda, and the East Coast
of the US.
Areas in the northeast under a tropical storm watch are from
Fenwick Island, Delaware, to Sandy Hook, New Jersey; from East
Rockaway Inlet, New York, to Watch Hill; and Delaware Bay South.
Even if Jose stays offshore as expected, parts of the coast and
Mid-Atlantic are expected to experience powerful gusts of wind,
heavy rainfall with isolated flooding, and dangerous ocean
conditions, including coastal flooding.
Here’s
when Jose’s tropical-storm-force winds are expected to
arrive.
National
Hurricane Center
Jose
was at one point a powerful Category 4 storm. It
menaced parts of the Caribbean that had already been
devastated by
Hurricane Irma, but it turned north and spun a loop in the
Atlantic. That weakened Jose to tropical storm status, but an Air
Force “hurricane hunter” plane found that the storm had
strengthened since Saturday morning.
As of 11 a.m. Monday, Jose had maximum sustained winds of 75 mph,
with some higher gusts, and was moving north at 9 mph. It’s
expected to turn northeast sometime Tuesday night and remain a
hurricane through Tuesday evening, the NHC said, then weaken to a
tropical storm once more.
Meanwhile, Hurricane
Maria is threatening the Caribbean and could
hit Puerto Rico directly as a major storm.
The NHC is also keeping an eye on tropical depression Lee, which
is crossing the Atlantic from Africa
toward the Americas but is likely to dissipate by Monday
night.
It has been an
unusually active Atlantic hurricane season, and we’re just
now at the peak time for storm activity.
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