Josephine Brings 65-mph Winds and Coastal Flooding to Eastern Seaboard

3 articles · Updated · Chicago Tribune · Oct 22

Josephine stayed offshore Thursday but still pushed coastal flooding, gale-force winds and dangerous surf onto the U.S. East Coast.
The extratropical low carried 65 mph sustained winds and sat about 235 miles east-southeast of Nantucket, moving northeast at 17 mph.
The National Weather Service posted gale warnings for parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic through Friday morning, while hazardous conditions for small craft extended south to North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Forecasters said Josephine would keep moving away from the United States, pass south of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and strengthen into an extratropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds by Thursday night or Friday.
Large swells and rip currents could reach as far as Atlantic Canada, while minor to moderate coastal flooding was expected to persist along the mid-Atlantic coast through the week.