Will Hurricane Michael Impact NJ?

NJ.com New Jersey has nothing to worry about in terms of getting a direct hit from Hurricane Michael, since the storm is barreling up through the Gulf of Mexico and not heading up the Atlantic coast.

During the past 24 hours, New Jersey has consistently moved out of the so-called “cone of uncertainty,” the wide bubble that represents the most likely track of the center of the storm. The forecast track of Michael’s remnants pushed slightly further south on Monday, and continued to trend further south Tuesday morning.



The National Hurricane Center says Michael is expected to make landfall Wednesday afternoon in the Florida Panhandle area — about 1,100 miles south of Cape May — then quickly weaken as it cuts north and east through Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina on Thursday, then out to sea on Friday and Saturday.

If that track continues to play out the way forecasters expect, New Jersey won’t get any torrential rain, strong winds or coastal flooding directly from Hurricane Michael, according to Alex Staarmann, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s regional forecast office in Mount Holly.