Tropical Storm Melissa To Team With Another System To Stir Up Rhode Island Surf

Tropical Storm Melissa may team up with another, unnamed storm to whip up rough surf along the coast of Rhode Island at the end of the month and into November, AccuWeather has predicted.

"The timing and strength of a dip in the jet stream over the eastern U.S. next week will help determine the path that Melissa takes through the Caribbean and into the Atlantic," the AccuWeather forecast said.

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The likeliest scenario is for "Melissa to swivel across the southeastern or central Bahamas with torrential rain and high winds and then into the western Atlantic, but well offshore of the United States," according to Accuweather, but "seas will be extremely rough and could pose dangers to fishing boats and could lead to damage to large freighters and cruise ships."

And even if Melissa stays far from the coast, expect high seas and big waves.

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"Regardless of how close the storm gets to the U.S., rough surf, beach erosion and coastal flooding issues are anticipated along much of the East coast next week," AccuWeather said.

"Melissa will be a powerful storm generating huge waves north of Cuba," AccuWeather Lead Hurricane Expert Alex DaSilva said.

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"The impacts will be felt at U.S. beaches hundreds of miles away as the storm moves over the western Atlantic," DaSilva said. "This has been a challenging year for beach erosion along the East coast."

When Melissa starts to move over the southwest Atlantic at the end of the month, a large dip in the jet stream will develop in the eastern half of the United States, according to AccuWeather, and it could start a new storm, or even a potent nor'easter, along the East Coast.

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"In a couple of worst-case scenarios, the jet stream dip could capture Melissa and pull it in close to the northeastern U.S. coast, or a swath of heavy rain could extend back to the Eastern states as Melissa's moisture becomes tapped," AccuWeather said.

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