Good morning everyone and thank
you for waking up with us.
It's 4:45 and Todd, you have a
lot to tell us. Ohh, my gosh,
yeah. I mean obviously our attentions
about this evening with this big
wind and rain storm coming in,
but this morning I think is
going to be really tricky.
Yeah, commuters. Yeah. Be careful.
Yeah. Away from the coastline there
are winter weather advisories.
There's a little burst of rain that's
coming down this time of the year.
When you get rain, you've always gotta
look at the surface temperature because
it oftentimes is right around 32,
and that's what's going on
across the interior right now.
Be careful, away from the coast,
there's that little burst of
rain being picked up by radar.
I also put temps on the radar so you get
an idea where we're going to have problems.
None along the coastline.
Alright, Wiscasset New Harbor, 40 or 41.
Portland, Cape Elizabeth,
41 mile down through York County as well.
Then you go inland and you get to
Lewis and it's 32. Naples, 33.
Turner 32. Freiberg, 31.
Let's go farther inland.
Bethels 30. Livermore is 32.
Mercer is 30 degrees.
So it's this area that's
going to be very slippery.
Most surfaces I'm thinking are going
to be slippery, especially the ones,
you know, that aren't the main roads.
Some of them have been treated
already this season, some haven't.
Some may need.
The treatment this morning obviously
check your step when you go to the steps.
Or if you're letting the animal out the
back door and you wanna go check on them,
you know, get your footing there,
make sure it's not a little
slippery on the back deck.
Our radar isn't picking up
anything in eastern Maine yet,
but the air that's there now is
chilling off all surfaces too.
So when Precip falls,
even if it's slightly above freezing,
it will likely create a little
icy coating in a few areas too.
So don't sleep.
On this in Eastern Maine you could have
some slippery spots for the commute too.
High pressure giving way
to our next storm system.
And remember yesterday how you know,
uneventful this front looked
with no precip on it?
Well, that's changed, right?
Gulf of Mexico is open for business.
We are going to get drenched this evening,
so we have a burst of rain moving through.
The model isn't picking it up well,
but temps are hovering near 32,
so we're going to have some slippery
roads and slippery surfaces inland away
from the coast by the middle of the day.
The breeze picks up out of the South,
scours out all cold air.
We're above 40 degrees.
We're fine.
It'll be cloudy with some isolated
showers and then boom by 456 o'clock,
here comes this wall of water
downpours sweep in from the West.
The wind gets very gusty and it's going
to be loud and wild from about 6:00
o'clock to midnight this evening as
this squall line sweeps across the state.
It'll shut down quickly at about midnight,
and then we'll clear out.
Overnight and we'll start
to get a lot colder.
I'm most concerned about
the wind this evening.
Yeah,
we're gonna get about an inch of
rain in a short period of time,
and some temporary flooding
issues are possible,
but we're gonna have some pretty
strong gusts this evening,
perhaps over 50 mph for the coastline
and also for the higher terrain too.
Power outages are likely this evening,
so make sure your generators have
gas in them and go fuel them up,
because you'll probably need them in a
lot of communities this evening there
could be quite a few power outages.
From this event tomorrow,
the winds are out of the West,
still strong, bringing in colder air.
Sunshine is back though.
The sun stays out on Friday and then
we get a similar system on Saturday.
Not quite as windy and not quite as rainy,
so I don't think we'll have
too many issues from it.
But again,
it's going to be a wet start to the weekend,
and another cold blast follows
it for the end of the weekend.
Gale warnings are up for the storm sees
6 to 9 and the winds cranking this
afternoon out of the South to 45 knots.
So watch out this morning for slick spots.
This evening it's wind.
It's rain. Highs in the 40s.
Tomorrow the sun is back.
Blustery and colder.
High near 40,
mostly sunny on Friday, a quiet day.
Saturday,
that breeze kicks up again out of the South,
so temperatures warm into the upper 40s.
But we'll have rain around.
And then Sunday it's sunshine with some
cold temps back to around 40 degrees.
Todd and we just got some
news out of eastern Maine.
About 2400 people are waking up without
power in Washington County, OK?
So they should be careful.