The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Ernesto was not a powerful post-tropical cyclone over the North Atlantic Ocean, and it issued its last advisory on the storm on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024.
At 11 a.m. Tuesday, the center of Post-Tropical Cyclone Ernesto was moving toward the northeast near 37 mph, and an even faster east-northeastward motion was expected during the next day or two.
Maximum sustained winds were near 70 mph with higher gusts. Some weakening is expected tonight and on Wednesday, and post-tropical Ernesto is forecast to merge with a frontal system and dissipate by late Wednesday.
Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 230 miles from the center.
Swells generated by Ernesto are affecting Bermuda, the northeast coast of the United States, and Atlantic Canada. The swells and the associated life-threatening surf and rip current conditions should gradually subside during the next day or so. Stay out of the water if advised by lifeguards.
No other tropical cyclones are expected in the Atlantic over the next 7 days.
Ernesto made landfall Aug. 17, 2024, as a Category 1 hurricane on Bermuda, then downgraded to a tropical storm, but winds had picked up again and the system became a hurricane again. As of 5 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 20, the storm was 150 miles east-northeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland.
Three deaths are being blamed on rough seas caused by Ernesto, all from swimmers who drowned off the coast of the Carolinas.
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The formation of the latest storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season came just over a week after Hurricane Debby made landfall on Florida’s Big Bend on Aug. 5, 2024.
Ernesto: What you need to know
- Location: 420 miles east-northeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland
- Maximum sustained winds: 70 mph
- Movement: northeast at 37 mph
- Last advisory from the National Hurricane Center in Miami: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 20
