Sunday Morning Hurricane Sandy Update for Worcester

Sunday, October 28, 2012

John Ghiorse, GoLocalWorcester Meteorologist

New England should begin to feel the outer fringe affects from Sandy by later today in the form of scattered light showers and a freshening northeasterly breeze. But the real action should begin later tonight and build during the day tomorrow. So you still have a good deal of time to prepare if you haven’t already done so.

Early this morning Sandy was located just under 700 miles south-southwest of the New England coast, moving northeast around 10 or 12 MPH. Most of the weather forecasting mathematical models have consolidated on a track that will continue to move Sandy on its current course today will a gradual turn to the left, toward the East Coast tomorrow. The eventually landfall of the center should be tomorrow night along the New Jersey coast.

It looks like we can expect to see wind gusts in the range of 40-70 mph much of the day tomorrow along with severe coastal and beach battering. Widespread power outages are likely. A tidal storm surge of 3-5 feet late tomorrow and tomorrow evening likely will cause considerable flooding along the coast and around Narragansett Bay.

Central Mass is going to get hit with high winds and the National Weather Service urges to take all precautions.

We will see bands of heavy rain but the heaviest rain should occur to our west through New York and New Jersey.

This will be a long-duration storm and I will continue to have updates throughout the storm.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE - HIGH WIND

...DAMAGING WINDS LIKELY ACROSS MUCH SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND MONDAY
AND MONDAY EVENING...

.HURRICANE SANDY WILL TRACK NORTHWARD ALONG THE EASTERN SEABOARD
TODAY...BEFORE TURING WEST AND MOST LIKELY MAKING LANDFALL IN NEW
JERSEY LATE MONDAY. ITS STRONG WIND FIELD WILL EXPAND NORTHWARD
INTO SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND MONDAY AND MONDAY EVENING...LIKELY
RESULTING IN WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS AND POWER OUTAGES ACROSS
SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND. HIGHEST CONFIDENCE FOR THIS OCCURRING IS
ALONG THE COAST OF RHODE ISLAND AND MASSACHUSETTS...INCLUDING
CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS.

FLOOD WATCH

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
451 AM EDT SUN OCT 28 2012

...SANDY WILL BRING POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINS OVER INTERIOR
SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND MONDAY INTO TUESDAY...

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