#Hurricane track long island update

#Hurricane track long island update

'The soil is going to get saturated, in some places it's already saturated,' NHC Director Ken Graham said in a midday update on the storm. Henri is expected to bring 3 to 6 inches of rain to eastern Long Island and southern New England, with some areas seeing nearly 10 inches. When the NHC issued its advisory early Friday, 'it had been nearly TEN YEARS since a Hurricane Watch has been issued for Southern New England,' meteorologist Aaron Perry of NBC Boston said on Twitter. New England is under its first hurricane watch in years Resort islands such as Block Island, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are also in the watch zone. The hurricane watch was issued early Friday, covering a large portion of Long Island and areas from New Haven, Conn., to Sagamore Beach, Mass., the National Hurricane Center said. Hurricanes have sustained winds of at least 74 mph. Henri's maximum sustained winds remained at 70 mph on Saturday, just short of hurricane strength, the NHC said in its 8 a.m.

'If Henri strikes southeast New England as a hurricane this weekend, it will be the first direct hurricane landfall since Bob in 1991,' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesman Chris Vaccaro told NPR. The National Hurricane Center has issued a rare hurricane watch for parts of New England, warning that Tropical Storm Henri will likely develop into a hurricane before making landfall on the northeastern U.S.

NOAA/Esri/HERE/Garmin/Earthstar Geographics In this graphic, the bright colors depict the likely path of tropical-storm-force winds, which have a minimum threshold of 39 mph. Tropical Storm Henri is predicted to become a hurricane before reaching the coast of southern New England.