# Tropical Storm Henri Nearing Hurricane Strength
**URL:** https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/tropical-storm-henri-nearing-hurricane-strength/60402
**Category:** Marine Weather
**Created:** [August 20, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/tropical-storm-henri-nearing-hurricane-strength/60402 "2021-08-20T21:22:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/tropical-storm-henri-nearing-hurricane-strength/60402/1 "2021-08-20T21:22:00Z")
> **[Tropical Storm Henri Nearing Hurricane Strength](https://gcaptain.com/new-england-prepares-for-tropical-storm-henri/)**
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> The U.S. Coast Guard is urging all mariners to prepare for Tropical Storm Henri before its predicted Sunday landfall. The NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center says Henri is now nearing...
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### Author:  [@Dutchie](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Dutchie)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2021, 11:03am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/tropical-storm-henri-nearing-hurricane-strength/60402/2 "2021-08-22T11:03:44Z")
I would have turned that yacht around with the bow to the sea but then who am I…
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### Author:  [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/tropical-storm-henri-nearing-hurricane-strength/60402/3 "2021-08-22T11:33:27Z")
Good article from the AP here:
> **[All about Henri as storm wanes, plods through US Northeast](https://apnews.com/article/henri-weather-what-to-know-fa093f1fbf970c6b3ae58dabb6e86bda)**
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> A weakening Henri is now a tropical depression and is churning eastward over New England and back toward the Atlantic Ocean.
From [NHC discussion as of 500 AM EDT Sun Aug 22 2021](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2021/al08/al082021.discus.026.shtml?)
> \*\*Henri has moved north of the north wall of the Gulf Stream and will \*\*
> **\> encounter cooler waters** on its approach to New England. \*\*Although \*\*
> \*\*\> some slight weakening is possible, Henri is expected to at or near \*\*
> **\> hurricane strength when it reaches the coast** of southern New
> England. Even if slight weakening does occur it will have little
> difference on the expected storm surge, wind, and rainfall impacts.
> Rapid weakening should occur after landfall. Henri is expected to
> weaken to a tropical depression by early Monday, and become
> post-tropical shortly thereafter.
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### Author:  [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/tropical-storm-henri-nearing-hurricane-strength/60402/4 "2021-08-22T13:17:03Z")
Last hurricane to hit New England was 30 years ago.
> **[Hurricane Bob](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bob)**
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> Hurricane Bob was one of the costliest hurricanes in New England history. The second named storm and first hurricane of the 1991 Atlantic hurricane season, Bob developed from an area of low pressure near The Bahamas on August 16. The depression steadily intensified, and became Tropical Storm Bob late on August 16. Bob curved north-northwestward as a tropical storm, but re-curved to the north-northeast after becoming a hurricane on August 17. As such, it brushed the Outer Banks of North Carolin...
> **[As Hurricane Henri Approaches, Looking Back at the Great New England...](https://www.oldsaltblog.com/2021/08/as-hurricane-henri-approaches-looking-back-at-the-great-new-england-hurricane-of-1938/)**
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> Hurricane Henri is expected to make landfall on the eastern portion of Long Island or in southern New England on Sunday afternoon. It will be the first hurricane to strike New England in 30 years. My wife and I cut … Continue reading →
> The current models show Hurricane Henri coming ashore near the Hamptons on Long Island as a Category 1 storm. While Hurricane Henri is a serious threat, with luck, its impact will pale in comparison to the Category 3, [1938 Great New England Hurricane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_New_England_hurricane), also referred to as the Yankee Clipper, and the Long Island Express Hurricane, which also made landfall near the Hamptons.
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### Author:  [@Dutchie](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Dutchie)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/tropical-storm-henri-nearing-hurricane-strength/60402/6 "2021-08-22T14:43:02Z")
The rear of a ship has no streamlined areas and has a large quadratic meters footprint. The wind and seas cannot flow away due to the blockage and the developed forces are max.
Seen to the bow the wind and seas can easily flow away and will cause minimum damage all due to the streamlined foreship’s footprint and to the much less quadratic meters blockage area.