Isaias makes landfall as a hurricane in North Carolina, heads up the U.S. east coast

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Isaias made landfall at 11:10 p.m. Monday near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained wind of 85 mph.

Isaias quickly weakened to a tropical storm after moving over land. As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, the center of now Tropical Storm Isaias was located 20 miles south-southwest of Frederick, Maryland, and 70 miles southwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Isaias is currently racing to the north-northeast near 35 mph, and the center of the storm will near the coast of the mid-Atlantic states today. It’ll eventually move across the northeastern United States into southern Canada tonight.

SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:

Changes with the 11 a.m. advisory:

The Tropical Storm Warning has been discontinued south of Duck, North Carolina, including the Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds.

The Storm Surge Warning has been discontinued.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for…
* North of Duck, North Carolina to Eastport, Maine, Chesapeake Bay, Tidal Potomac River, Delaware Bay, Long Island and Long Island Sound, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and Block Island.

A Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area, in this case within the next 12 to 18 hours.

ELSEWHERE IN THE TROPICS

Showers and storms have mostly disappeared near a trough of low pressure located a few hundred miles south-southwest of Bermuda. Although a weak area of low pressure could still form later this week, dry air surrounding the region is likely to hinder development. The National Hurricane Center has lowered the chance of development to 30%.

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