Dangerous Waters Expected In NJ Caused By Tropical Storm

Maybe Gov. Chris Christie said it best: Stay the hell out of the water on Wednesday. Tropical Storm Gert is supposed to impact the New Jersey coast this week.

Forecasters are warning people to exercise caution if they head to the Jersey Shore this week as the storm heads out to sea. Swimmers and boaters, in particular, should be careful during a season that has seen 28 people die in New Jersey in water-related incidents since May.

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Rough seas, heavy rain and strong wind gusts will expand outward as the storm strengthens, according to AccuWeather.

The swells generated from Gert will also lead to increased wave action and rip currents along the east coast of the U.S. and in Bermuda, according to an AccuWeather release.

The number and strength of rip currents will increase through the middle of the week as far north as Massachusetts and Maine, according to the release. Even though Gert will stay a few hundred miles offshore, bathers will want to use caution and only swim when and where a lifeguard is present.

Tuesday into Wednesday, Gert is expected to get swept off to the northeast and absorbed by a non-tropical system over the open waters of the northern Atlantic.

Gert will not make landfall in the United states and will pass between Bermuda and the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Tuesday, according to the release.

"Gert's closest approach to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, will be roughly the same distance between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, or about 260 miles early Tuesday," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said in the release.

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