Hermine may no longer be a hurricane but that doesn't mean the storm isn't still packing a wallop.
"This storm is not done yet," said Ari Sarsalari, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel. "It's going to get worse over the next couple of days."
Now officially a "post-tropical cyclone," Hermine — the first hurricane to strike Florida in 11 years — was on the back end of a long, slow journey up the East Coast. And by Monday morning, it's expected to have recovered to hurricane strength, the National Hurricane Center said.
Tropical storm watches and warnings blanketed the Eastern seaboard from Jacksonville, N.C., all the way north to Portsmouth, N.H.
All New York City and Long Island beaches, along with Rehoboth Beach, Del. — will be closed Sunday, potentially spoiling the Labor Day holiday weekend for tens of thousands of vacationers.
At 8 a.m. ET, Hermine about 295 miles east-southeast of Ocean City, Md., still carrying maximum sustained winds of 65 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. It's expected to pick up strength as it moves north, and the hurricane center warned of dangerous storm surges from Virginia to New Jersey — just in time for Labor Day.
The Coast Guard was searching for two missing males who fell into the water while fishing on rocks near Wading River, New York, at about 3:30pm Saturday. Another male fell into the water, the Coast Guard said, but was able to grab hold of a rock and raise the alarm.
The Hyannis Yacht Club in Massachusetts ordered all boats on its docks out of the water Saturday, New England Cable News reported. It had dismantled all of the docks to make sure no one stayed behind.
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