UPDATED AT 10 AM CDT FOR NEW POSITION AND OTHER INFORMATION
Centered: 425 miles SSE Cape Hatteras, N.C. If you are using a hurricane chart, plot him at Latitude 29.2N, Longitude 73.8W
WINDS: Sustained 80 mph, no change from last advisory
MOVEMENT: Now moving NE but he is expected to return to a NNE direction
OTHER INFO: While not getting stronger, Noel was growing larger in overall size.
Everyone from the North Carolina Coast northward should watch Sir Noel.
He is expected to maintain hurricane strength all the way past the Maine Coast around midnight Saturday night.
An 80 mph “extratropical wind causes just as much damage as an 80 mph tropical.
He may dump as much as six inches of rain on Eastern New England.
He will continue racing northeastward crossing the Canadian Maritimes and projected to make landfall on the SW Coast of Greenland eventually. Maybe the leftover tropical moisture will mean plenty of snow.
NANTUCKET IMPACT
Offshore well SE of Boston and south of Cape Cod is Nantucket. The NWS official forecast for that location calls for heavy rain at times late tonight through Saturday night with gusts to 60 mph tonight and gust to 70 Saturday and Saturday night. Can you imagine the pounding they will get and the height of the waves breaking onshore?.
BOSTON
They will get plenty of rain, too, maybe several inches. In fact all of Eastern Massachusetts into Maine will get a soaking.
