The low pressure system that was Tropical Storm Hermine began to move back toward the west on Monday and the motion brought it closer to Long Island.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Post Tropical Storm Hermine was located at latitude 39.3\u00b0N and longitude 70.3\u00b0W which put it about 135 miles south of Nantucket Island.\u00a0 Hermine was moving toward the west-northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 997 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect for the portion of the coast from Fire Island Inlet to Port Jefferson Harbor on Long Island and from New Haven, Connecticut to Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts including Block Island, Martha’s Vineyeard and Nantucket Island.\u00a0 Most of the stronger winds are occurring over water, but a weather station at Nantucket, Massachusetts reported a sustained wind speed of 44 m.p.h. (71 km\/h) and a wind gust ot 56 m.p.h. (90 km\/h) on Monday.<\/p>\n
Post Tropical Storm Hermine has not had the structure of a tropical cyclone for several days.\u00a0 There are no thunderstorms near the center of circulation.\u00a0 The taller clouds are all occurring west of the center.\u00a0 The circulation pulled in drier air which has circulated into the core of the circulation.\u00a0 An upper level low south of Hermine has generated southeasterly winds which are blowing across the top of the circulation.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear combined with the drier air to prevent the development of new thunderstorms near the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
The environment around Post Tropical Storm Hermine could become a little less hostile on Tuesday.\u00a0 It will be moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 25.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 As Hermine moves west the vertical wind shear will decrease.\u00a0 However, the cyclone is surrounded by dry air.\u00a0 If the surface low moves west, the complex environment could allow the system to maintain its intensity for another day or so.\u00a0 If the surface low moves farther north, it will move over cooler SSTs and the wind speeds will decrease.<\/p>\n
The upper low to the south of Post Tropical Storm Hermine and a ridge north of Hermine are combining to steer it toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 That general motion is expected to continue for a few more hours.\u00a0 As Post Tropical Storm Hermine interacts with the upper low, it could make a slow cyclonic loop.\u00a0 On its expected track Hermine could move closer to Long Island on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Post Tropical Storm Hermine will continue to produce modest water rises along the coast.\u00a0 In addition persistent wind and wave action will generate more beach erosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The low pressure system that was Tropical Storm Hermine began to move back toward the west on Monday and the motion brought it closer to Long Island.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Post Tropical Storm Hermine was located at latitude 39.3\u00b0N and longitude 70.3\u00b0W which put it about 135 miles south […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[491,492,505,497,504,507,123,206,506,499],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}