Reporter not a lot of rain, but the wind has been kicking up twpt miles an hour 20 miles an hour sustained wind and gusts 36 miles an hour. People have been coming to the beach all afternoon in chattum to experience the force of hermine. They want to feel the sand stinging their face and the huge white caps off the shore and the winds blowing from offshore. I see you trying to lean back how far have you been able to lean back . 10 degrees maybe. Reporter you dont seem to be you seem to be having the time of your life. It is not a hurricane, but it is close. Reporter away from the beach the tourists struggled with their umbrellas as they made their way from shop to shop on main street in chattum. Part of the treetop pelled over in the wind today. Sand. The sand stinging their face as the wind gusting up to 36 miles an hour. The crowds dont seem to have been affected that much. People who continue come here experienced hermine instead. Wcvb newscenter 5. Anchor the storm putting a damper
Morning. I want to show you a live picture the radar and the storms path. Fox25s jason brewer is in for shiri and he is in the Storm Tracker Weather Center tracking the timeline when the rain and strong winds will move in. Jason lets talk about it, daniel. Right now hermine is down to the south and moving northward closer to us. The heavy rain is 30 miles away from nantucket at this hour. A 70mileperhour storm. A powerful ocean storm with broad reaching winds outside of it. Show you the up cle morning we drift throughout north and northwest at a 70mileperhour storm. Watch as we go forward in time. Tuesday we see the weakening trend and we go back to the 50 to 45mileperhour intensity. That is good news and out of here by wednesday into thursday and we are quieting things down and look at these Tropical Storm warnings for the south coast, cape and islands they remain in effect. Wind gusts 45 to 50 Miles Per Hour. Track that potential 7 a. M. The vineyard. That Tropical Storm wind spreads
But its still disrupting labor day plans. When it arrives, will it be Strong Enough to cause dam here . Meteorologist bri eggers has more . The timing of this really unfortunate for labor day. Thats when you want to be at the beach and on a boat. That looks to be the exact place you dont want to be with this storm. We kept seeing it kind of tracking eastward which would have been a good sign but we knew the forecast track was going to cause this storm to to a crawl where its going to meander for the next couple few days. Well continue to track hermine. Heres where the center is right now. As i mentioned before, about 300 miles from any coastline with that center. So this is not going to make landfall. That would take the center of the storm crossing the coastline, not in the cards for this storm system. Right now, it is still packing a punch with those winds at Tropical Storm force. 70mileanhour winds. Late monday, into tuesday, late tuesday and starts to track to the east as we get in
Winds at nantucket over 60 Miles Per Hour offshore. Now we are seeing basically 20s and 30s. Inland a breezy evening and settling back a little bit. Things will settle down somewhat. The rain has pushed its way down the coast and we are left with scattered showers. The wind driven drizzle. Occasionally a shower he were there. We will see more of that going on tonight and a t be some scattered showers. We will be talking about the shower threat to my when the winds will ramp up and when this clears out and we Start Talking about summer heat. All that in a few moments. Then the strongest winds are in the southern part of the state. People are feeling some impact. Mary saladna in new bedford. Mary some is an understatement. I am holding onto my hat. We are afraid everything is going to blow away. They are significant. It has been this way here in new bedford and on the islands most of the evening. A damon to celebrate american workers, a Holiday Weekend cut short by the slow, sloppy arriv
Sure when he would make it back to the mainland. Are you happy to be back on the mainland . Very much so. Reporter while he was happy to make the ferry, he said it wasnt completely smooth sailing. It was a little choppy. I have two sea [sic] passengers and two not sea [sic] passengers. , better than expected, we didnt think we were getting off last night. We were there, as the very firs great lady 4 heading to nantucket at around 6 30 this morning. Before shipping out, we caught up with the captain who told us he thoroughly analyzed the weather data before making the decision to head out. But, he said because conditions can change within minutes, he is rechecking data before every trip today. We look at the weather buoy in the middle of the sound. Which had it at 3foot seas this morning, which is really nod bat for this boat. But again the conditions could definitely change very by trip basis here for the highline of cruises and ferry, they still canceled the Ferry Services to and from