You can still say the worst of the rain is yet to come... I'm paying extremely close attention to the radar right now for a couple of reasons... One, an extremely heavy band of rain and now probably thunder and some lightning too, has developed just to the west of the Connecticut border line, and in the last couple of images heavy rain was setting up to the south of Connecticut as well... The situation will only worsen with even heavier rain, maybe an inch or more per hour, will be setting up... I looked outside just a couple of minutes ago, and not a leaf shook... This is because the low right now is currently exploding with energy... A band of wind containing winds gusting around 50 mph is expanding around the center of the storm and won't reach land until maybe after midnight... That's when winds will become sustained at around 30 mph and gusts could reach or topple 50 mph... Now the period of 2-4 hours of both the rain and the wind will be the worst of the storm here in southern new England... this will occur right past midnight where the heavy rain will begin to taper and the strong winds will begin to pick up... tomorrow will be interesting though, because we'll have these bands of showers which could be moderate coming through the area with the strongest of the winds... This will cause it to look and feel like a tropical type system tomorrow... So now the affects... again beginning after midnight, we can expect trees beginning to come down due to the combination of moist grounds and strong winds, as well as power outages from the strong winds... in fact the outages could keep occurring into your Saturday as the winds will remain strong... So through the night the worst of the rain is about to happen and then it will begin to taper but still be heavy at times with winds beginning to pick up between 25 and 40 mph, with gusts potentially past 50 mph... Just quickly a wind advisory is in affect for a lot of areas, as well as now flood advisories... Keep it here for more updates...
-scott pecoriello
