Sunshine to swollen seas to stormy skies to speedy winds… we pretty much had everything across the area yesterday. The brunt of the winds were blasted across the Cape and Islands with the Vineyard and Nantucket pushing close to 60mph. As rain bands backed in, far Southeast Massachusetts picked up on most of it, 0.5-1.0″ with locally higher amounts. Farther northwest, we had to wait until the end of the day to push in scattered showers, much of it leaving a 0.25″ or less. Not even close to a drought denter. Scattered showers and patchy mist likely leaves only an additional 0.25″ or less for most the next couple days, although a few higher amounts are possible across Southeast Mass.
Hermine this morning, as of the 5am update from the National Hurricane Center, has winds sustained of 65mph. On satellite presentation, the storm looks much weaker than yesterday as the cold clouds tops are minimal (cold cloud tops are present with strong storms and building thunderstorm/squall activity). As Hermine weakens over the next few days, the wind becomes less of an issue with scattered showers, patchy mist and leftover rough surf and rip currents the main threat. Winds today and tomorrow likely gust 30mph or less for much of the time with only a few gusts 30-40mph possible across the south coast of New England. Weakened tree branches may still come down, but additional tree damage/power outages will be minimal.
Transition day is Thursday as any lingering spotty showers in the morning gets kicked off to the east by the afternoon. As the warmer weather works back in, we’ll take another crack at 90 by Friday! While it’s possible to catch a passing shower/storm near the end of the week and again Saturday night/early Sunday, the bulk of the time will once again be dry.
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