Monitoring a nor’easter!

It’s been a gorgeous, if not breezy day throughout the Bay State and southern New England on the entire. With a mixture of clouds and solar and an October really feel this afternoon, hopefully you bought the possibility to spend a while outside regardless of the stiff breeze we’ve felt at present.

If not, make this your cue to take action earlier than the top of the day Friday, as a result of Friday night and the weekend shall be a bit rough-and-tumble with a nor’easter on the best way.

Going chronologically– we’re in for one more cool night time with temperatures bottoming out within the low 40s for many areas with a principally clear sky.

Tomorrow, we’ll be cool and breezy once more, with highs within the low to mid 60s and wind gusts as much as about 30 mph, particularly for these in southeastern MA (largely areas southeast of I-95). We’ll be principally sunny, so you possibly can take pleasure in one other vibrant day outside! Simply thoughts the wind.

Friday begins out with a mixture of clouds and solar as effectively, and temperatures will equally be within the low to mid 60s by the afternoon. However right here’s the place issues begin to shift as our storm approaches from the south. First, we’ll see (and really feel) the winds choose up all through the day Friday.

Whereas the complete timing of this storm is a bit of unsettled, one of many forecast components that hasn’t modified is that the winds and the rain are misaligned of their arrival.

The worst of the winds will ramp up Friday. By Friday night time, we may see gusts effectively up into the 30s and 40s, even as much as 50mph for the Cape and Islands. Robust gusts within the 40s (and an remoted few within the 50s, for coastal areas particularly) linger by means of Saturday night time earlier than the winds begin to die down.

Coastal flood potential can be at its peak throughout that timeframe. Between massive, crashing waves (wave heights may attain double-digits) and the tide cycle, we may see some minor coastal flooding between Friday and Saturday afternoon.

For that motive, we have now a Coastal Flood Watch in place from Friday afternoon by means of Saturday afternoon. These areas may see as much as a foot of inundation, particularly in low-lying places close to the shoreline.

When it comes to the rain– whereas we may see a number of showers as early as noon Friday for the Cape and Islands, the majority of the rain doesn’t arrive till Saturday. Rain shall be on-and-off, some heavy, some gentle, between Saturday and Sunday, then tapering to extra scattered, lighter showers on Monday earlier than we completely dry out.