Good morning weather folks! I just wanted to jump on to give a quick update on a strong cold front, which is about to blast nature’s canvas clean with heavy downpours and gusty winds later afternoon into the overnight hours, and tapering tomorrow. If you have Halloween decorations up, esp in New England, you may want to take them down. It’s basically a two-part storm. The first front moves in from the west later this afternoon through Eastern Pennsylvania into New Jersey/Hudson Valley with heavy downpours and strong winds. Then it combines with a low off the coast driving flooding downpours during rush hour through LI, CT, MA. The storm really starts cranking further north up into Massachusetts, New Hampshire and into Maine later this evening, and intensifying through the overnight hours.
While widespread rainfall and wind, there will be a narrow heavier band from central to eastern Connecticut, Central Massachusetts, on up the spine of New Hampshire into the White Mountains. Besides isolated power outages, boomers and bolts, total rainfall, especially up in New England will range between 1 and 3 inches potentially upwards to 5 to 6 inches in central in northern New Hampshire. Winds will be howling from 30 to 50 miles an hour essentially wiping the stunning trees bear. Scattered power outages are likely due to down trees and powerlines. Flood Watches are up for most of C/N New Hampshire and most of Maine, and Wind Advisories across E NY and VT (will probably expand east into NH/ME). Flooding will be in issue along rivers and streams, including leaf clogged drains up into the White mountains and Maine overnight into Friday.
Timing and Totals
Best way to share timing and what to expect are graphics below. I’ll break it down into 2 regions. First the tri-state area (NJ/NYC/LI/Hudson Valley), then southern and northern New England.
Skies clear by sunrise Friday morning and will be a beautiful end of the week with temps in the mid 60s, low humidity, and a nice northwest breeze.
Now lets look at southern and northern New England.
For the rest of Friday in New England, rain and wind will taper off later in the morning to early to afternoon. Temps will rise into the low 60s along the seacoast, mid to upper 50s up in the mountains.
That’s it for now. I’ll be back this weekend to discuss what to expect over the next few weeks of October (mercury rollercoaster coming), and an early look into winter!