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ELSA Tropical storm from South Carolina,US

Elsa was a 45-mph tropical storm as of Thursday midday, and it was still picking up speed as it traveled northeastward at 20 mph. The storm is expected to hit sections of the mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States late this week, according to  meteorologists.

Elsa was blamed for at least one death in Florida after making landfall in Taylor County, on the peninsula’s upper west coast, as a 65-mph tropical storm.

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As Elsa continued her northward trip, tropical storm warnings remained in force all along the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday morning, from South Carolina up through New Jersey and into New England.

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On Tuesday, the storm delivered wind gusts of up to 78 mph to sections of southwestern Florida.Elsa will gradually lose wind strength as it passes the Southeast, finally moving through the mid-Atlantic and Northeast coasts from Thursday night to Friday, according to forecasters.

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Elsa will be guided along a tight route near to the coast by a high pressure area over the Atlantic Ocean and a storm system coming into the Northeast.

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 ELSA Tropical storm from South Carolina ,US
ELSA Tropical storm from South Carolina ,US

Elsa should stay far enough inland as it moves north along the coast to keep the odds of it intensifying again to a tropical storm low. Elsa’s strengthening back to a tropical storm would be more likely if it moved off the southern New England coast. If this were to happen, it would happen on Friday during the day. While Elsa has the potential to bring heavy rain along its path from the mid-Atlantic to New England, the storm’s rapid forward progress should help to prevent excessive rainfall and the threat of widespread flooding.

 ELSA Tropical storm from South Carolina ,US
ELSA Tropical storm from South Carolina ,US

“Elsa will bring a three- to six-hour period of heavy rain, some of it wind-swept, to many regions along and south and east of Interstate 95 in the mid-Atlantic and southern New England, which could result in urban and poor drainage area flooding, as well as travel delays,” Meteorologist stated.

Meteorologist Adam Sadvary said, “Rainfall totals of 1-2 inches can occur over sections of eastern New Jersey, Long Island, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.”

Along parts of the mid-Atlantic coast and in coastal areas of northern New England, higher totals of 2 to 4 inches are expected.The Carolinas, as well as the southeastern parts of Virginia and Maryland, are expected to see local StormMaxTM of 6 inches.

From late Thursday into Friday, Elsa will track close enough and strong enough to deliver wind gusts of 40-60 mph from southeastern Virginia through the Delarva Peninsula, coastal New Jersey, Long Island, New York, and a region of southeastern New England.
This location is expected to see an  Local StormMaxTM of 70 mph, according to Sadvary. This is the most likely scenario for Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and portions of the mid-Atlantic coast’s capes and barrier islands.

 ELSA Tropical storm from South Carolina ,US
ELSA Tropical storm from South Carolina ,US

On Friday, a 1-3 foot storm surge is expected in southeastern New England and the eastern section of Long Island.

“As Elsa moves into the northern Atlantic, strong surf and rip currents are forecast from the mid-Atlantic to New England coastlines,” Sadvary noted.Elsa’s trajectory would shift slightly westward, bringing impacts further inland across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

 

reference – ELSA Tropical storm, accuweather

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