High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tropical Storm Hermine was a moderate tropical storm that made landfall in southeastern Massachusetts. The eighth tropical cyclone and named storm of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season, it formed from the same frontal zone over the western Atlantic that spawned Hurricane Gaston. Hermine remained weak and disorganized for its entire existence, peaking with winds of 60 mph (97 km/h). The storm began to weaken as it tracked northward, and made landfall in southern Massachusetts on August 31. Hermine had minimal effects, mostly limited to gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall. As the extratropical remnants progressed northward, moderate rain fell in parts of New Brunswick, resulting in minor basement flooding and road closures.