Pennsylvania emergency officials prepare for hurricane
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s office says an emergency declaration is prepared for him to sign if it becomes necessary.
Wolf’s press secretary Jeff Sheridan said Thursday that the administration is monitoring the situation closely.
The path of Hurricane Joaquin, now a Category 3 storm, isn’t clear but it could threaten the United States’ East Coast in the coming days. The National Weather Service predicts as much as 10 inches of rain for some areas.
Meteorologist John LaCorte said a likely scenario is an inch of rain or more for Pennsylvania’s most southern and southeastern areas over the next few days from a low-pressure system moving north from the Gulf of Mexico.
He said rainfalls will be substantially higher in the unlikely event that the low-pressure system steers the hurricane inland.