Hermine shifts away from New York City to blast New England

Big waves from tropical storm Hermine in New Jersey
(Image credit: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)

Now considered a "post-tropical cyclone," the storm drenching the Atlantic seaboard throughout Labor Day weekend is expected to leave New York City and surrounding coastal areas comparatively unscathed. Instead, Hermine wll veer east, hitting Long Island, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.

Winds of up to 50 mph will develop in Nantucket and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and tides could surge by as much as 5 feet from Chincoteague Island, Virginia, up through New Jersey. "This storm is not done yet," said meteorologist Ari Sarsalari of The Weather Channel. "It's going to get worse over the next couple of days."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.