Hurricane José may not directly hit the metro area, but it’s still set to pack a 🏅wallop in the region.
The Category 1 storm will whip up large waves and life-threatening rip currents off Long Island and New Jersey from Tuesday into Wednesday, while pummeling the city with rain and fierce winds, the National Weather Service predicted.
Suffolk County was already getting slammed with 4- to 8❀-f🎶oot waves on Sunday.
“I would expect they’d get bigger as the week goes on,” said Faye Morrone, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Brook🍷haven, LI, office.
The service warned of possible flooding in communities on the Lon🌸g Island Soun💖d and Peconic and Gardiners bays.
“If you know that you tend to be vulnerable and in a space that floods during storms, take the necessary precautions,’’ Morrone w🌊arned.
Tropical storm-force winds of up to 50 mph are also expected to blow through the coast, reaching northern New Jersey and New York on Tuesday evening, according to theꦆ National Hurricane Center in Miami.
The powerful winds will swirl through Long Island from 2 a.m.𒁏▨ to 2 p.m. Wednesday, as well.
“We could see some power outages and🍰 wires coming down with those winds,” Morrone said.
Eas🐭tern Long Isla🌄nd is expected to get showered by up to 3 inches of rain in the first half of the week.
Steady rain is ex𝔉pected in New York City on Tuesday, with morning showers stic𓆉king around into the evening and wind gusts reaching up to 50 mph.
Near🧜ly an inch of rain is expe🔴cted to douse the city on Wednesday, too.
José strengthened Sunday as it continued its journey through the Atlantic off the East C▨oast, with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph.
The trajectory may still chang🧸e, but it is not expected to make landfall.
José spare𒁏d the Caribbean islands already devastated by Hurricane Irma.