Henri to have dangerous effects as hurricane over Northeast

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Henri volition onslaught crossed New England connected Sunday

PLYMOUTH, Mass. – Parts of the Northeast could statesman to consciousness the effects of Tropical Storm Henri arsenic soon arsenic precocious Saturday, arsenic the strategy that is expected to go a hurricane by the extremity of the time barrels toward the region.

Forecasters said Henri was expected to beryllium astatine oregon adjacent hurricane spot erstwhile it makes landfall midafternoon Sunday, which the hurricane halfway said could beryllium connected New York’s Long Island oregon successful confederate New England — astir apt Connecticut.

Storm surge and the tide could origin precocious h2o successful coastal New England arsenic Henri moves inland, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said successful an advisory. Heavy rainfall and upwind whitethorn besides nutrient flooding.

Henri was veering a spot further westbound than primitively expected, and if that way holds, it would person eastbound Long Island successful its bullseye alternatively than New England, which hasn't taken a nonstop deed from a hurricane since Hurricane Bob successful 1991, a Category 2 tempest that killed astatine slightest 17 people.

New York hasn’t had a nonstop deed from a large hurricane play tempest since Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc successful 2012.

Regardless of its nonstop landfall, wide impacts were expected crossed a ample swath of the Northeast, extending inland to Hartford, Connecticut, and Albany, New York, and eastward to Cape Cod, which is teeming with tens of thousands of summertime tourists. Reflecting Henri's changing track, a hurricane ticker was lifted for the Cape connected Saturday, though it remained nether tropical tempest and tempest surge warnings.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker urged radical vacationing connected the Cape to permission good earlier Henri hits, and those who planned to commencement vacations determination to hold their plans.

“We don’t privation radical to beryllium stuck successful postulation connected the Cape Cod bridges erstwhile the tempest is successful afloat unit connected Sunday,” helium said.

Henri was centered Saturday greeting astir 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and astir 525 miles (845 kilometers) southbound of Montauk Point, New York. It was a tropical tempest with maximum sustained winds astatine 70 mph (110 kph), and was moving north-northeast astatine 12 mph (19 kph).

Gov. Ned Lamont warned Connecticut residents they should hole to “shelter successful place” from Sunday day done astatine slightest Monday greeting arsenic the authorities braces for the archetypal imaginable nonstop deed from a hurricane successful decades.

“This tempest is highly worrisome,” said Michael Finkelstein, constabulary main and exigency absorption manager successful East Lyme, Connecticut. “We haven’t been down this roadworthy successful rather a portion and there’s nary uncertainty that we and the remainder of New England would person immoderate existent difficulties with a nonstop deed from a hurricane.”

The hurricane halfway tempest surge betwixt 3 and 5 feet (1 to 1.5 meters) was imaginable with Henri from Flushing, New York, to Chatham, Massachusetts; and for parts of the North Shore and South Shore of Long Island.

Rainfall betwixt 3 to 6 inches (7.5 to 15 centimeters) was expected Sunday done Monday implicit the Northeast.

The upwind work warned of the imaginable for damaging winds and wide coastal flooding from Henri, and officials successful Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York cautioned that radical could suffer powerfulness for a week oregon adjacent longer. Authorities urged radical to unafraid their boats, substance up their vehicles and banal up connected canned goods.

New York authorities parkland officials were gathering a partition of soil on the boardwalk astatine Jones Beach to support it against surging tides, said George Gorman, the determination manager for authorities parks connected Long Island. The partition was being built with instrumentality procured successful the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which caused important harm to beaches that took months to reopen, helium said.

Campgrounds were expected to beryllium closed starting Saturday day and stay disconnected limits until Tuesday.

At Safe Harbor Marina successful coastal Plymouth, Massachusetts, Steve Berlo was among the galore boaters having their vessels pulled retired of the h2o up of the storm.

“It’s rare, but erstwhile it happens, you privation to beryllium definite you’re ready,” said Berlo, 54. “Got to support our 2nd home.”

In the Hamptons, the personage playground connected Long Island’s eastbound end, officials warned of unsafe rip currents and flooding that’s apt to crook streets, similar mansion-lined Dune Road connected the Atlantic coast, into lagoons.

Ryan Murphy, the exigency absorption head for the Town of Southampton, said that portion the storm’s way continues to evolve, “we person to program arsenic if it’s going to beryllium similar a Category 1 hurricane that would beryllium hitting us.”

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Eaton-Robb reported from Columbia, Connecticut. Associated Press writers Michael R. Sisak and Bobby Caina Calvan successful New York, Tom Foreman Jr. successful Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and William J. Kole successful Warwick, Rhode Island, contributed to this report.

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