Tropical Storm Isaias sped past New York City on Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Isaias was located at latitude 40.9\u00b0N and longitude 75.1\u00b0W which put it about 65 miles (105 km) west of New York, New York.\u00a0 Isaias was moving toward the north-northeast at 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 994 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for the portion of the coast from Chincoteague, Virginia to Eastport, Maine including Long Island, Long Island Sound, Block Island, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tropical Storm Isaias sped up the East Coast of the U.S. on Tuesday and the center of circulation was west of New York City by Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0 Isaias was still generating an area of winds to tropical storm force over the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 A NOAA buoy at the entrance to New York Harbor measured a sustained wind speed of 57 m.p.h. (83 km\/h) and a wind gust of 71 m.p.h. (115 km\/h).\u00a0 JFK airport recently reported a wind gust to 70 m.p.h. (113 km\/h).<\/p>\n The eastern side of former Hurricane Isaias produced strong wind gusts along the East Coast of the U.S. from North Carolina to Long Island.\u00a0 A station at Federal Point, North Carolina reported a gust of 99 m.p.h.\u00a0 (160 km\/h).\u00a0 Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina had a wind gust to 86 m.p.h. (139 km\/h).\u00a0 Stevensville, Maryland measured a gust of 79 m.p.h. (127 km\/h).\u00a0 South Norfolk, Virginia reported a wind gust to 76 m.p.h. (122 km\/h) and Nags Head, North Carolina had a gust of 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 Ocean City, Maryland measured a gust of 69 m.p.h. (111 km\/h).<\/p>\n The strong wind gusts caused widespread power outages.\u00a0 Shear in the lower levels of the atmosphere also contributed to the spinup of a number of tornadoes.\u00a0 Tropical Storm isaias dropped heavy rain over parts of the northeastern U.S.\u00a0 Isaias will continue to speed north-northeastward into Canada during the next 12 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Isaias will gradually weaken and wind speeds should decrease.\u00a0 Isaias will continue to drop locally heavy rain over eastern New York, western Massachusetts and Vermont for several more hours.\u00a0 The potential for flash floods in those areas still exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Storm Isaias sped past New York City on Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Isaias was located at latitude 40.9\u00b0N and longitude 75.1\u00b0W which put it about 65 miles (105 km) west of New York, New York.\u00a0 Isaias was moving toward the north-northeast at 40 m.p.h. (65 […]<\/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":[491,492,505,497,2104,504,823,496,507,2123,123,206,1319,100,506,2103,2117,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998"}],"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=9998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10001,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998\/revisions\/10001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}