Tropical

What the Atlantic is doing, and whether any of it reaches New Jersey

Tracked · no swell watch

The Atlantic has a named system, and nothing in it is pointed at New Jersey.

Tracked1
Advisories0

Basin plot · GOES-East, position and distance from Belmar

Belmar500 mi1,000 mi1,500 mi2,000 miHanna · 1,737 mi
  • Hurricane
  • Tropical storm
  • Track so far
  • Distance from Belmar

GOES-East GeoColor via NASA GIBS, refreshed every ten minutes. The dashed line is where each storm has already been, from NHC’s best track. NHC publishes the forecast track and cone separately and neither is drawn here — nothing on this picture says where a storm is going next.

Swell arrival by town

Nothing crosses the groundswell threshold in the next 5 days. The ordinary five-day forecast carries the coast until it does.

Open the five-day forecast

Hanna · Post-tropical

Wind
35 mph
Pressure
1008 mb
Moving
E 6
Distance
1,737 mi
Position
33.4N 43.6W
Advisory
#009

What it means here

Hanna is under advisory at 1,737 miles, and nothing in our forecast window crosses the groundswell threshold. A named storm in the Atlantic is not the same thing as surf in New Jersey.

What would put this page back to work

  • A disturbance in the outlook with formation odds worth watching.
  • A named system tracking far enough north to send groundswell this way.
  • Long-period swell crossing the threshold at any of the forty-eight towns.

Checked against the NHC outlook and NWS alerts every ten minutes.

Local alerts · NWS Mount Holly

No active alerts for the New Jersey coast.

Sources

  • NHC CurrentStorms.json — named systems under advisory
  • NHC tropical weather outlook — disturbances short of advisory
  • NWS api.weather.gov — active alerts, filtered to coastal New Jersey
  • Open-Meteo marine — the arrival table’s hourly series

Outlook read Wed 12:58 PM