Melissa makes landfall – Boston Information, Climate, Sports activities

Melissa is a hurricane for the report books, making landfall this afternoon at 1pm. It got here ashore in New Hope, Jamaica with 185 mph winds and gusts as much as 220 mph, making it one of many strongest hurricanes on report within the Atlantic Ocean each by way of wind velocity and stress.

Stress is the commonest approach to measure the power of a storm — not only a hurricane, however any storm like nor’easters or a easy, weaker winter Alberta clipper. The decrease the stress, the stronger the storm. The stronger the storm, the stronger the wind velocity. So with the wind speeds produced by Melissa, it’s no shock that the stress is in uncommon firm. It’s just a little reverse pondering as a result of a decrease stress (a decrease quantity) will put the storm larger on the listing. Melissa is tied for third place for strongest hurricane on report within the Atlantic — once more, that is by the stress benchmark.

Transferring ahead, Melissa is predicted to weaken slowly because it continues to come across land plenty within the Caribbean. That additionally means we’re not carried out speaking about Melissa but. From right here it’s anticipated to make one other landfall tonight in Cuba as a class 4 storm, transfer by the Caribbean as a class 3 and at last head to Bermuda as a class 2 storm.

Whereas Melissa won’t impression New England straight, it would not directly throw some heavy rain our manner on Thursday night and Thursday night time. The realm of low stress that will likely be transferring by, will really pull some tropical moisture from Melissa and create tropical downpours right here, Thursday night and Thursday night time.

Rain-wise that’s our greatest likelihood of rain transferring ahead. Tomorrow is a humid, drizzly, uncooked day. It’s removed from a washout, nevertheless it’s not nice. We’ll have cool temperatures, a great little breeze together with drizzle or a spotty bathe or two. Whereas a lot of the rain is finished Thursday night time, a spot bathe or two may very well be wrapped in on the bottom of the storm on Friday — once more, a really low likelihood.

The opposite factor to get used to for the remainder of the week is the wind. A chilly, uncooked breeze will likely be right here tomorrow, however as we get nearer to that Thursday storm, the wind will decide up much more. What’s initially a gusty wind throughout the storm itself, then it turns into a robust west to northwest wind on the bottom of the storm because it exits Friday and Saturday. Whereas the Halloween forecast appears promising for trick or treating (low spot bathe likelihood), it could be a big gamble to maintain these inflatables up for Friday and Saturday.