A nor’easter churned its way up the East Coast on Sunday, with New Jersey declaring a state of emergency and some airports posting delays and cancellations in advance of anticipated coastal flooding, and strong winds, as another storm system struck farther south with heavy rain and flooding.
Parts of the state are forecast to experience moderate to major coastal flooding, inland flash flooding, winds up to 60 mph, up to 5 inches of rain and high surf, potentially causing beach erosion. Some volunteers were putting sandbags at beaches.
BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The StormTracker Team is watching a cold front that will bring increased rain chances later this week, as well as some cooler air by the weekend.
TONIGHT: Overnight, skies will begin to clear some. Lows will be in the lower 70s.
TOMORROW: Expect a mix of clouds and sunshine through out the day. Highs will be in the lower 90s. Isolated showers and thunderstorms will develop in the afternoon and evening hours, again, will fade around sunset.
LOOKING AHEAD: A slow moving cold front will bring an increased chance for rain on Wednesday and Thursday. Rain coverage will be fairly widespread Wednesday afternoon and evening, with off and on waves of showers and thunderstorms expected through Thursday morning and early afternoon. Locally heavy rain is possible, along with an isolated threat for damaging winds in any stronger storms that can develop. There is a Level 1/5 Marginal Risk for severe weather on Wednesday.
TRACKING THE TROPICS:
Hurricane Gabrielle continues to churn in the Atlantic, but poses no threat to the United States. Gabrielle has been named a major category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph. The hurricane will weaken late week as it moves into the cooler waters of the north Atlantic.
There are two tropical waves behind Gabrielle that have a chance of tropical formation over the next week.
There is still plenty of hurricane season left to go, and the StormTracker team will continue to keep you updated on any and everything going on in the tropics.
