A
man crosses a flooded Highway 64 as Hurricane Arthur passes through
Nags Head, N.C., on July 4, 2014. Related. Arthur Viewed From Space as
It Moves Northward.
Hurricane Arthur swept up the East Coast, delaying fireworks celebrations from Maryland to Maine and postponing a Major League Baseball game, on a path toward a second landfall tomorrow in the Canadian Maritimes.
Arthur
will brush past Massachusetts later today and go ashore as a
post-tropical storm in southwestern Nova Scotia, lashing New Brunswick,
Prince Edward Island and parts of Newfoundland with wind and rain as well, according to the Canadian Hurricane Centre.
“You
can think of this as a hurricane transforming into a nor’easter type
storm,” said Chris Fogarty, manager of the agency in Dartmouth, Nova
Scotia. “A nor’easter with extra potency.”
Arthur crossed North
Carolina’s Outer Banks overnight as a Category 2 hurricane, knocking out
power to at least 41,500 customers, flooding downtown Manteo and
closing some roads and bridges. No deaths or major damage were reported.
The hurricane, the first to hit the U.S. since 2012, then moved out quickly, leaving clear skies.
“The
North Carolina beaches are open for business,” Governor Pat McCrory
said at a briefing, while warning people to beware of rip currents.
Arthur was 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of Chatham, Massachusetts,
with top winds of 90 miles per hour, as of 2 p.m., the U.S. National
Hurricane Center said in an advisory. The storm was moving northeast at
25 mph.
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NYC Rain
The storm’s track up the East Coast
delayed the passage of a cold front across the eastern U.S. which
brought thunderstorms and gusty winds from New England to the
mid-Atlantic states. Those storms were expected to move through New York
City during the course of the day.
“We’re expecting the rain to
be in and out and over in the city by 5 or 6 o’clock,” said Lauren
Nash, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Upton, New York.
The
Macy’s annual fireworks display was scheduled to start at 9 p.m. The
only thing that might affect the show are winds of 15 mph to 25 mph
during the night, said Tom Kines, a meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania.
Arthur’s
closest approach to the U.S. after leaving North Carolina “is when it
passes by Cape Cod tonight,” Kines said. “Then it will head into far
eastern Canada, giving them a good punch. It’s going to be a powerful
storm for those folks.”
Storm Alerts
A tropical storm warning was posted for most of Cape Cod as well as Nantucket in Massachusetts, according to the U.S. center. Coastal flooding is possible on the Cape Cod peninsula, which juts out into the Atlantic from the mainland.
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Today’s baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and
Baltimore Orioles was delayed until tomorrow. On Cape Cod, Barnstable
canceled its fireworks, set for tonight, while Falmouth rescheduled for
July 6. On Martha’s Vineyard, Edgartown moved its parade and fireworks
to tomorrow.
As the storm undergoes a transformation near
Canada, how it interacts with land will change. The heaviest rain will
be over New Brunswick, while the highest winds are expected to rake Nova
Scotia, said Bob Robichaud, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.
Nova
Scotia may have to endure six or seven hours of high winds, with gusts
expected to reach more than 60 mph, enough to damage trees and power
lines.
As much as 6 inches (15 centimeters) of rain may fall in
parts of New Brunswick, Fogarty said in a conference call with
reporters. Some roads may be washed out.
Canada issued warnings
for Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island and New
Brunswick from the U.S. border to Grand-Anse.
Fogarty said the organizers of the Cavendish Beach Music Festival,
starting today on Prince Edward Island, were in hourly contact with the
Canadian center. Blake Shelton, Darius Rucker and Lady Antebellum are
scheduled to perform at the three-day event, which was expected to draw
thousands.
“It’s going to be pretty nasty,” Fogarty said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Brian K. Sullivan in Boston at bsullivan10@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: David Marino at dmarino4@bloomberg.netCharlotte Porter, Millie Munshi
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