Metro Boston beware — the storm promised by the darkish sky over the area has already arrived, however it can do little to problem the warmth onslaught.
Pop-up thunderstorms are downing timber throughout the area and whereas wind gusts have been within the “sub-severe” class for essentially the most half, these storms have a possible for gusts as laborious as 60 mph, in keeping with Torry Gaucher, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Boston workplace.
“We’ve had some reports of trees down on roads,” Gaucher cautioned. “People out and about should just be aware that we’ll have some strong thunderstorms.”
Gaucher mentioned the NWS is forecasting these storms to stay within the area over the subsequent two to 3 hours, however may presumably lengthen into scattered storms into Saturday.
He mentioned the wind gusts within the storms, which may additionally carry small hail, may down energy traces and that anybody who comes throughout a powerline ought to deal with it as a stay wire and call their native energy firm.
Unfortunately, the storms gained’t be serving to Boston’s warmth. The NWS has prolonged their warmth advisory into Sunday night with an anticipated warmth index, a combo of temperatures and humidity, within the vary of 95 to 104.
A map the Service tweeted outlines in purple a area alongside the coast north to Revere, south practically to Braintree and west towards Belmont and Newton that might see the results of those storms.
But, as one Twitter commenter identified, the demarcation of the storm is a bit more foggy: “I’m south of the Red and it’s looking pretty ominous here!”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”