Hurricane Jose could graze Massachusetts on Wednesday

Bloomberg

A weakened Hurricane Jose could graze the Northeast as Hurricane Maria tears through the Caribbean, gaining strength and possibly heading toward the US in a week.
Jose will probably be downgraded to a tropical storm as it comes close to Massachusetts on Wednesday—threatening shipping and real estate along the East Coast—before veering farther out into the Atlantic, the US National Hurricane Center said. Storm watches have been posted from Delaware
to Massachusetts.
The two storms build on a devastating 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, coming just after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma left dozens of people dead and upended energy and agriculture markets. Since August 25, the US has suffered an estimated $143 billion in damage from Texas flooding caused by Harvey and damage to Florida by Irma, according to Enki Research in Savannah, Georgia.
Some models bring Jose “very close to Nantucket and Cape Cod, but it is not going to be a very powerful hurricane at that point,” said Bob Henson, a meteorologist with Weather Underground in Boulder, Colorado. “The biggest implication will be multiple days of big surf and probably beach erosion.”
In the Caribbean, Maria is growing in power and will hit some of the islands wrecked by Irma about two weeks ago, along with others. It could strike Puerto Rico as a Category 3 hurricane on Wednesday. Jose and Maria are two of 13 named Atlantic storms this season, which has so far killed at least 100 people. The average year produces 12 storms.
If the estimates hold, this will be the second most costly year for hurricane damage since 1980 behind 2005, when a record 28 storms formed in the Atlantic and Katrina devastated New Orleans, according to
the US National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina.