Live Blog: Dangerous Gonzalo heads for Bermuda

With benign Autumn weather in place throughout our area today — it actually will be a beautiful day with temperatures in the upper 60’s and lots of sun — our attention turns to Category 4 Hurricane Gonzalo, which is making a bee-line for the island of Bermuda today. Evacuations have already occurred and Hurricane Warnings remain in effect. The National Hurricane Center anticipates winds over 125 miles per hour, dangerous storm surge, dangerous surf, and widespread flooding and damage. Our live blog will update throughout the day with new information as we get it.

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Live Blog: Very heavy rain, thunderstorms tonight

Our live blog (below) will be updated throughout the night by our meteorologists as we track the expected heavy rain and thunderstorms. If you’re on our front page, click “read more” to view it.

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Images, updates as massive Nor’Easter slams Cape Cod

What may eventually be the strongest Nor’Easter in the past 20 years or more is currently developing to the south and east of New England, deepening rapidly to some of the lowest pressures observed in a non-tropical storm system in the Northwest Atlantic on record. Although the storm system spared our area major impacts, parts of Cape Cod and especially Nantucket are feeling the brunt of the developing low pressure system. We’ll follow along today and post some of the latest images, information and news as it comes through.

Water Vapor satellite imagery showing massive storm system in the Northwest Atlantic

Water Vapor satellite imagery showing massive storm system in the Northwest Atlantic

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Live Blog: High impact coastal storm through Thursday

A high impact storm system will affect the area beginning later Wednesday evening, and continuing throughout much of Thursday. Significant amounts of snow, periods of rain and sleet, gusty winds and coastal flooding are all expected hazards. Wednesday night a strong storm system will develop off the Carolina coast, owing to a powerful mid and upper level trough and shortwave. Phasing disturbances aloft will eventually reach the East Coast, which will help shift the coastal system  north and eventually northeastward from the Mid Atlantic to the shores of New England.

With significant impacts expected, we have opened up our live blog for discussion throughout the overnight period beginning at 7:00pm February 12th, 2014. Throughout this time, our meteorologists will check in and continue to update the live blog (and the website products, of course) with information. Even better, the live blog will feature our staff’s thoughts on the event as it is unfolding. This way, you’re never in the dark when it comes to the forecast or the storm which is evolving. Keep it right here tonight and during the storm on Thursday. We have included some handy links to our recently issued products below, followed by the live blog below that. Note: We are using a brand new software, so bear with us if there are any kinks (and let us know, if you can). If we have any significant problems, we will revert to our basic text update system.  (Click read more if you are on the homepage to see the live blog)

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