Weather updates, focusing on warnings, watches, and unusual conditions.
Although it is too early to be sure, with most of RI on the eastern side of the path of TS Henri the main consequence of the storm is electrical outages. As of 1:47pm, National Grid was reporting 424 outages affecting 81,964 customers. Most of those affected are in southern RI, where the storm center […]
IMPORTANT: This post is out of date and has been superseded; see motifri.com/wx-henri-2021-08-22-1700edt UPDATE: As of 2pm EDT, Tropical Storm Warnings have been dropped for all of RI except Block Island, and maximum sustained winds have decreased to 50MPH as TS Henri loses strength over land. As of 11am EDT Sun, Aug 22, 2021 in […]
IMPORTANT: This post is out of date and has been superseded; see motifri.com/wx-henri-2021-08-22-1100edt As of 5am EDT Sun, Aug 22, 2021 in RI:• A Storm Surge Warning and Hurricane Warning are in effect for Newport and Washington Counties including Block Island.• A Storm Surge Warning and Tropical Storm Warning are in effect for eastern Kent […]
IMPORTANT: This post is out of date and has been superseded; see motifri.com/wx-henri-2021-08-22-0500edt As of 11pm EDT Sat, Aug 21, 2021 in RI:• A Storm Surge Warning and Hurricane Warning are in effect for Newport and Washington Counties including Block Island.• A Storm Surge Warning and Tropical Storm Warning are in effect for eastern Kent […]
IMPORTANT: This post is out of date and has been superseded; see motifri.com/wx-henri-2021-08-21-2300edt As of 11am EDT Sat, Aug 21, 2021 in RI:• A Storm Surge Warning and Hurricane Warning are in effect for Newport and Washington Counties including Block Island.• A Storm Surge Warning and Tropical Storm Warning are in effect for eastern Kent […]
IMPORTANT: This post is out of date and has been superseded; see motifri.com/wx-henri-2021-08-21-1100edt As of 5am EDT Sat, Aug 21, 2021 in RI:• A Storm Surge Warning, Tropical Storm Warning, and Hurricane Watch are in effect for Bristol, eastern Kent, Newport, and Washington Counties, including Block Island.• A Tropical Storm Warning and Hurricane Watch are […]
Weather is an endlessly fascinating topic: It affects everybody and can literally be a matter of life and death. Forecasting seems to many some kind of black art, but the basic principles are fairly simple: Collect a lot of observations, plug them into a set of theoretical models, and turn the crank repeatedly to advance […]