The hobby making them internet sensations ahead this friday morning. Good morning to you. Im randy price. Erika multitalented there. Im erika tarantal. Emily is off. Cindy is here. Hurricane joaquin on a new track. Cindy what a switch from 24 and 48 hours ago. This thing is trending eastward in the projections, but right now still stuck over the bahamas. This is a category 4 hurricane. Winds 130 Miles Per Hour, just sitting and battering the central bahamas. By later this evening, it will start to shift north away from the bahamas, and look at this new forecast track from the Hurricane Center. All the models started shifting eastward yesterday. Now the Hurricane Center is thinking this is going to stay offshore and u. S. Landfall not expected with Hurricane Joaquin. Well keep you posted on that. In the meantime, you need an umbrella out the door here on the south shore and the cape. Lighter rain right now. That rain is going to slowly pivot northward with highs today. We also have that
Sensations. Thats ahead this morning. Thank you so much for joining us. Good morning. Friday morning. Im randy price. Erika made it to the end of the week. Im Erika Tarantal. Cindy is here. Hurricane joaquin, thank goodness for now, is moving away. Cindy looks like a big shift eastward with our computer model. Landfall in the United States is looking very unlikely. Far cry from what we were thinking a couple of days ago. Its still a powerful storm. The winds this morning, 130 Miles Per Hour just sitting there over the central bahamas. You can see that forecast track now offshore away from the eastern seaboard here. Well continue to monitor it very closely as we look at the weekend. Once again, heads up for the high tide. Coastal flood advisories up during the afternoon for that threat of splashover and minor coastal flooding. The winds have not gone down. Theyre gusting over 30 miles an hour on the cape. By the end of the day, they may gust over 40 miles an hour. Place through saturday
The storm is moving off the coast, but there are still concerns. We have Live Team Coverage we begin with storm team 5 s danielle vollmar. Doug danielle the sky is beginning a bit of snow. This was the highest total, 15. 3 inches of snow. On the vineyard, 15 inches of snow in south plymouth. 8. 5 inches. The farther north, the lower the totals. In boston, 6. 1. We are starting to see more sunshine across most of the area. This area of low pressure gets out of here and High Pressure builds in nicely. As you look over boston now, you see sunshine reflecting off the buildings. This will help to melt the snow. It is 23 degrees. The wind is out of the north at 14 making it feel like 11 degrees. Bundle up if you are headed outside today. As we go through the day, we will see sunshine in boston with mike wankum will be back to talk about the wind. Antoinette thank you. In our area the cape really , getting the brunt of this storm. Doug wind and snow making for really rough conditions. Stormte
Out and try to battle our way home after that big storm. And its not just the snow, a lot of this country now frozen in place by bone chilling cold. And tonight, our extreme weather team is out in force. From frozen roads to frozen airports. And the new storm to come. Abcs Ron Claiborne leads us off in boston. Ron. Reporter i am in boston at samuel hall this city was hit with more than a foot of snow from this storm leaving it a ghost town. Let me show you what 3,000 work crews have dealt with all day. Taking all of that snow, and pushing it into mini mountains of snow like this one that im standing on. It turned out to be every bit as fierce as promised. A howling, shrieking winter snowstorm driven by winds that during the overnight peak clocked in at 55 Miles Per Hour in some areas. Wcvb meteorologist Danielle Vollmer demonstrated its sheer power. Whoa reporter in the hardest hit area, nearly two feet of snow fell. And in boston, 17. 8 inches, new york city, 6. 4 inches of snow. And