{"id":15146,"date":"2019-09-02T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=15146"},"modified":"2019-09-02T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T05:06:00","slug":"hurricane-dorian-forecast-to-move-toward-n-j-but-may-be-far-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/09\/hurricane-dorian-forecast-to-move-toward-n-j-but-may-be-far-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Dorian Forecast to Move Toward N.J., But May Be Far at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hurricane Dorian\u2019s forecast track, Sept. 2, 2019. (Credit: National Hurricane Center)<\/p><\/div>\n

As residents of coastal cities in Florida up through the Carolinas are bracing for the potential impacts of the category-five Hurricane Dorian, the Jersey Shore was keeping a cautious watch on its future track.<\/p>\n

The National Hurricane Center, for the first time, forecast that the storm would move toward New Jersey \u2013 but whether it will hug the coast or be so far offshore that impacts will be minimal is unknown. The track of the storm is so uncertain that it is even difficult for meteorologists to determine the impact Florida will see from Dorian within the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n

The NHC\u2019s forecast early Monday morning showed the storm positioned somewhere off New Jersey this Friday and Saturday, but while the \u201ccone of uncertainty,\u201d as it has colloquially become known, shows the Shore possibly being brushed by the storm, it is more likely that it will be headed out to sea by the time the weekend rolls around.<\/p>\n

Dorian will still be packing winds of 85 m.p.h. \u2013 category one hurricane strength \u2013 by the time it moves northward. As it currently stands, the National Weather Service is forecasting a chance of showers on Friday followed by sunny skies Saturday. That could change, but for now the impacts most likely for the Shore ares will be rough surf, a strong breeze and the potential for tides to run higher than normal.<\/p>\n

Also, by the time it\u2019s off the New Jersey coast, the storm will have significantly weakened, according to the National Hurricane Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe models show an increase in shear when Dorian tracks near Georgia and the Carolinas, which should cause more notable weakening,\u201d a forecast discussion statement said.<\/p>\n

As for comparisons for Superstorm Sandy, which devastated the region in 2012, one influential forecaster dismissed any perceived parallels.<\/p>\n

\u201cSandy came into NJ at a perpendicular orientation, worst possible landfall for the region,\u201d Meteorologist Steve DiMartino of NY-NJ-PA Weather<\/a> wrote via social media. \u201cIrene slowed to a crawl to produce widespread intense rainfall. Both are nothing like this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As residents of coastal cities in Florida up through the Carolinas are bracing for the potential impacts of the category-five Hurricane Dorian, the Jersey Shore was keeping a cautious watch on its future track. The National Hurricane Center, for the first time, forecast that the storm would move toward New Jersey \u2013 but whether it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[3785,182,942,2301],"class_list":["post-15146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment","tag-hurricane-dorian","tag-jersey-shore","tag-new-jersey","tag-nj"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-02-at-1.04.08-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3Wi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}