Tropical storm warnings up for Mass. coast
Residents - sitting Presidents included - of Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are under tropical storm warnings today as Hurricane Bill spins northward off the U.S. East Coast.
Bill remains a 105-mph Category 2 storm, and its winds are producing heavy surf and rip currents along the southeastern coast of the U.S. Those surf conditions will extend northward today and tomorrow. Here's a web cam view of the surf from the Kite Loft at Ocean City. Looks a bit frothy already. Here's the beach forecast.
Bill's position this morning was about 410 miles east of Cape Hatteras, moving northward at 22 mph. It was due off the New England coast tonight, accelerating toward the Canadian Maritime provinces on Sunday.
Here is the forecast for Nantucket. The tropical storm warnings mean that tropical storm conditions - winds over 39 mph - are expected within 24 hours.
Here is the latest advisory for Bill. Here is the forecast storm track, which places the storm's remnants in Ireland by mid-week. And here is the view from orbit.
(SUN PHOTO/Robert F. Kniesche/Hurricane Edna/Ocean City, Sept. 1954)
