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Forecast this week and a look at Helene

Happy Tuesday!

Fall has arrived!  If the temperatures aren’t evidence enough, you may have noticed our days getting much shorter recently.

In fact, this week we lose daylight at the most rapid pace of the entire year, a depressing 2 minutes and 50 seconds per day!

Doing some quick math, that equates to about 20 minutes of daylight loss from last weekend to this coming weekend!

Today and tomorrow will be very similar days with periods of clouds and a cool onshore breeze.

Highs both days will be mainly in the 60s across southern New England.

Our best shot at some rainfall this week comes Wednesday night into Thursday.  It appears as though the rain may come in two waves…the first, late Wednesday night into Thursday morning and the second, Thursday evening.

Most models are indicating between .5″ and 1″ of water from this event.

Later this week we expect an area of high pressure to re-establish itself over the Northeast in between a couple semi-stationary storms, one to our east and the other to our west-southwest.

Therefore, we expect a good deal of sunshine this Weekend!

That large storm to our west this Weekend is actually the remnants of now Tropical Storm Helene.

This is going to be a highly impactful storm for folks living on the Florida Gulf Coast over the next several days.

Helene is expected to rapidly intensify and become a major hurricane before making landfall near Tallahassee, Florida Thursday night.

The forecast is for sustained winds of 115mph or greater with massive storm surge.

Hurricane watches are now posted up and down the west coast of Florida.

Rainfall will also be a major concern for the entire southeastern U.S.

Some areas could receive nearly a foot of water by the end of the week.

Thankfully, New England will be spared from any impacts, once again, under the protection of a massive high pressure system.



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