Hurricane Jose Spins North, With East Coast Watching Warily “Although the center of Jose is forecast to pass well east of the North Carolina coast early next week, tropical-storm-force winds are expected to extend well west of the center and could approach the North Carolina Outer Banks on Monday,” he said. People in coastal areas from North Carolina to New England “should monitor the progress of this system,” the National Hurricane Center said in its latest public advisory, adding that parts of North Carolina might be placed on a tropical storm watch on Saturday. “Farther north along the U. S. East Coast, the chance of some direct impacts from Jose is increasing, but it is too soon to determine their exact magnitude and location.” The places where the storm could hit land directly include Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York City and Rhode Island. “Jose does not show any signs of the rapid intensification that both Harvey and Irma underwent,” Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the center, said in an email on Friday evening. The storm follows on the heels of Hurricanes Harvey, which brought catastrophic flooding to Texas, and Irma, which destroyed communities in the Caribbean and led to flooding and power failures in Florida.
