we can get this next around done. and behind it even more rain, so it s not over with. this is going to be the rest of the afternoon and into the evening and yes, it will get heavy. at times, you ll see the yellows popping pockets of heavier, steadier rain. unfortunately there is the possibility of a few lightning strikes as well. now it s not thing severe, but it s just annoying to get those delays when you re trying to get this thing wrapped up, so we don t have to add an extra day. as for the rest of the evening here we are increasing the rain chances . you sell it on radar, more and more rain heading in that direction, and it s cold. i mean, our temperatures aren t even breaking. 50 degrees were in the forties. on top of it. we add in a northeast wind. thanks to that high that s hanging up to the north in the northeast, and it brings it in at about 10 to 15 mph gusts. i saw reaching up to 20 mph when you factor that in with a 45 degree temperature, it feels like we re in the thirti
peninsula right now. we still have a northeast wind, so still trying to push that water on shore, not like it did earlier. but all of the rain is on the northern and northwestern flank. it s still a hurricane, it s just not as well organized, but it s still going to bring the same effects. it will not bring this, however. this is that northern flank right here. this is where we talk about two 1/2 to three months worth of rain fell in this area. the odds of that happening, a one in 1,000 year event. we ve got a category one. now, timing means everything with this. we believe it will be some time after noon. we want it to be later. the reason we want it to be later is their high and low tide. it s much different on the atlantic coastline than it is on the gulf.
anything 74 miles per hour or stronger is hurricane force. so that is going to lead to the whiteout conditions. it s also going to make the it will make the temperatures outside feel even colder. current winds, nantucket is at 43 with gusts up to 61. boston, it s picking up, 25-mile-per-hour sustained wind, gusts up to 37. we re beginning to see the stronger bands push into massachusetts, specifically the boston area. so down here in delaware and maryland and south jersey, we re beginning to see the snow taper off here, same in philadelphia. new york is still seeing flurries. then we get into portions of connecticut, you have flurries too. but rhode island and massachusetts, especially eastern massachusetts, we are dealing with some heavy snowfall at the moment. in portland, maine, we ll start seeing that heavy snowfall pick up in intensity here in the coming hours. looking at the storm surge, because it s not just the wind and the snowfall, we re also