New York and New England on cyclone and flood alert

The United States National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued a hurricane and storm surge warning for New York and the New England coast on Friday as Storm Henry strengthens in the Atlantic and is about to become a cyclone.

NHC meteorologists clarified that there is a hurricane warning for the south coast of Long Island (New York), since Entrance to the island of fire up to Pointe Montauk, as well as for the north coast, Port Jefferson Harbor up to Pointe de Montauk.

Also since New Haven (Connecticut) West of Watch Hill (Rhode Island), as detailed in the most recent NHC Bulletin.

There is also a storm surge warning on the south coast of Long Island, since Mastic Beach up to Pointe Montauk, and on the north coast, Oyster bay up to Pointe Montauk, and of Greenwich (Connecticut) a Chatham (Massachusetts), included Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard and Block Island.

Henri is about to become a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 kilometers per hour, on its way to the New England coast.

It is located approximately 470 kilometers south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and 1,115 kilometers from Pointe Montauk, At New York.

The phenomenon is moving north-northwest with a translational speed of 11 kilometers per hour and, according to the latest NHC forecasts, it is expected to “make landfall in southern New England on Saturday afternoon.”

Meteorologists they expect Henri to strengthen in the next 48 hours and become a hurricane on Saturday, When I hit the New England shore

Besides the scourge of wind and rain, the areas indicated by Henri may experience a storm surge, with up to 1.50 meters of sea level rise at certain points on the coast.

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts the current Atlantic hurricane season will be above average in activity.

Since the start of the year, two hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic basin, Grace and Elsa, this second at the beginning of last July.

PREPARATIONS

This Friday, New Englanders began to remove boats from the water and take other precautions on Friday to deal with its first direct hurricane in 30 years, Tropical Storm Henri towards the northeastern United States.

The phenomenon will strike the states which form New England, including Cape Cod, which is teeming with thousands of summer tourists.

The Governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker asked walkers to leave Cape Cod on Friday before Henri arrived, and those who had planned to spend vacations there to postpone their projects.

“We don’t want people to get stuck in traffic on Cape Cod bridges. when the storm deploys all its force on Sunday, “he added.

MEXICO ALSO ON ALERT

The government of Mexico launched on Friday a call for the population to be “very aware” of the next return of Hurricane Grace, that the day before he left the Yucatan peninsula and that he will arrive in Veracruz in the next few hours.

“We ask the entire population to be very vigilant. Follow the recommendations of Civil Protection and I backed up in their homes”, Declared the national coordinator of civil protection, Laura Velázquez, during the morning press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Hurricane Grace quickly gathered strength this Friday evening to become a powerful Category 3 hurricane before again touching Mexico where flood and avalanche warnings were activated.

(With information from EFE and AFP)

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