{"id":9282,"date":"2023-09-25T06:13:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T10:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=9282"},"modified":"2023-09-25T06:13:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T10:13:32","slug":"beaches-bruised-but-not-battered-as-coastal-storm-exits-jersey-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2023\/09\/beaches-bruised-but-not-battered-as-coastal-storm-exits-jersey-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaches Bruised, But Not Battered As Coastal Storm Exits Jersey Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script id=\"d6db556dd6f548fab8e4a4012a955bf2\">(new Image()).src = 'https:\/\/capi.connatix.com\/tr\/si?token=e6ca17a0-9f6c-402e-8f17-7db2585f0eb0&cid=209cb62d-f20d-41b1-885d-a317d66dc464';  cnx.cmd.push(function() {    cnx({      playerId: \"e6ca17a0-9f6c-402e-8f17-7db2585f0eb0\",      mediaId: \"55857d19-af23-4b81-9ffc-7443d4a0d513\"    }).render(\"d6db556dd6f548fab8e4a4012a955bf2\");  });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A few patches of blue sky emerged around 6 p.m. Sunday in the southerly direction on Ocean County&#8217;s northern barrier island, the first signs of fair weather in days after the remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia washed out the weekend and eroded local beaches.<\/p>\n<p>While beaches took a beating, and some areas saw signs of erosion, the damage was typical of an average fall nor&#8217;easter. Sand was blown west by high winds, filling dune crossovers and covering some snow fences and railings, but the &#8220;cliffs&#8221; that have become synonymous with major coastal weather events did not emerge in Ortley Beach, Normandy Beach or Bay Head \u2013 the area&#8217;s typical trouble spots.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14886\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1529-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14886\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14886\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1529-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bayside flooding varied from minor in most areas to moderate in a few others, and likely produced some damage to property in the most-affected neighborhoods, however major roads remained open. Photos of the storm&#8217;s presence Sunday night are embedded below, with video coverage above. (Note that some ad blocking software may interfere with the video player.)<\/p>\n<p>Watches, warnings and advisories have all expired, except for a rip current advisory that predicts a &#8220;high&#8221; risk of rip currents that could be deadly through Tuesday night at 8 p.m., as of the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Weather Service, periods of rain will continue Monday, though there may be intermittent clearing. It will be breezy, with a northeast wind 5 to 15 m.p.h. increasing to 15 to 25 m.p.h. in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 35 m.p.h.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14891\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_9758-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14891\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14891\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_9758-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14885\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1528-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14885\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14885\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1528-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14884\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1527-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14884\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14884\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1527-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"565\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14883\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1526-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14883\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14883\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1526-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14890\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1533-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14890\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14890\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1533-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14889\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1532-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-6\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14889\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14889\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1532-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"558\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14888\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1531-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-7\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14888\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14888\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1531-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14887\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1530-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-8\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14887\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14887\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1530-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia move out of New Jersey, Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chances of rain and showers will continue into Tuesday night; the NWS forecasts partly sunny skies to re-emerge Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2023\/09\/beaches-bruised-but-not-battered-as-coastal-storm-exits-jersey-shore\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few patches of blue sky emerged around 6 p.m. Sunday in the southerly direction on Ocean County&#8217;s northern barrier island, the first signs of fair weather in days after the remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia washed out the weekend and eroded local beaches. While beaches took a beating, and some areas saw signs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[370,1429,1080,30,11,1867],"class_list":["post-9282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment-weather","tag-barrier-island","tag-beach-erosion","tag-featured","tag-ortley-beach","tag-toms-river-nj-news","tag-tropical-storm-ophelia","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ophelia_jersey_shore_sept_24_1529-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}