"Fortunately it's no longer a hurricane, it's been downgraded to a tropical storm. And we are taking it seriously, though, because the size and the storm's surge and the rainfall it's producing," the President said.īiden said the federal government is prepared to assist those state's impacted by the storm and the heavy rainfall. Flood watches remain in effect from New Jersey through New Hampshire into Monday. Heavy rain and flooding remain significant threats for portions of the Northeast through Monday night while the storm surge and damaging wind risks have subsided. The center of the storm will track toward the Connecticut/New York border tonight, then take a turn to the east and eventually travel out to sea beginning Monday afternoon. This weakening trend has prompted the NHC to cancel all remaining tropical storm warnings. The storm continues to weaken as it moves farther inland and is expected to become a tropical depression tonight and a post-tropical cyclone by Monday afternoon. Remember: A tropical storm has maximum sustained surface winds ranging from 39 to 73 mph. ET update from the National Hurricane Center. Tropical Storm Henri is now a 40 mph tropical storm located about 20 miles southeast of Hartford, Connecticut, according to the 5 p.m. Henri will begin to take a turn to the east Monday into central New England and eventually depart the Northeast during the day Tuesday as a post-tropical cyclone.Ī van drives through a partially flooded street during Tropical Storm Henri in New London, Connecticut on August 22. In these situations, isolated rainfall totals can amount to around 6 inches. Similar to the flooding situation in the New York City area Sunday afternoon, there will be the risk for pockets of heavier rain that stall over a given location, thus making flooding likely Monday. Forecast rainfall totals between Monday and early Tuesday morning are expected to be in the 1 to 3 inch range for areas in this moderate risk. Henri’s slow forward motion over the northeastern US will make for favorable conditions for flash flooding to occur with scattered, heavy showers and thunderstorms expected through the day Monday. This includes southern New York and much of central and southern New England and the cities of Hartford, Albany, Springfield and Bridgeport. The Weather Prediction Center has issued a level 3 of 4 risk for excessive rainfall in parts of the Northeast for Monday into Monday night due to Tropical Storm Henri. Henri's wind field - which is the three-dimensional radius around the storm - at landfall was expected to be a quarter of the size of Sandy's, CNN meteorologists said The two storms are not the same, however. ![]() Henri and Sandy: Henri has brought back difficult memories from 2012, when Superstorm Sandy - a post-tropical cyclone - made landfall in New Jersey with hurricane-force winds and devastated swaths of the Northeast.Where Henri goes next: The storm continues to weaken as it moves farther inland and is expected to become a tropical depression tonight and a post-tropical cyclone by Monday afternoon.Already, more than 130,000 customers have lost power in the Northeast, primarily in Rhode Island, according to Poweroutage.US. Power outages and storm surge: Still, the storm brings damaging winds and dangerous storm surge that threaten to topple trees and power lines and cause flooding for millions of people across the region's major metropolitan areas.When it hit Rhode Island, it had sustained winds of 60 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. Henri was once a hurricane - but not at landfall: Henri weakened from a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday morning before it made landfall later in the day.
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