YOU ARE
SEEING IS NOTED
TRANSITION.
TONY:
TEMPERATURES ARE GETTING
COLDER AND WE ARE CHANGING THE
CONSISTENCY OF THE SNOW FROM WET
AND STICKY TO DRIVE.
GETTING MANY REPORTS OF
DOUBLE-DIGIT SNOWFALL TOTALS
COMING IN RIGHT NOW.
SNOWFALL AMOUNTS ARE GOING UP
AND WIND SPEEDS ARE GOING UP AND
THE TEMPERATURE IS DROPPING.
MICHELLE
: OVER 20 IS A LOW 30'S,
THIS IS DOWN FROM 34 DEGREES
DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS
IN PROVIDENCE.
THAT'S WHEN WE HAD A COUPLE OF
INCHES OF SLUSH THAT PITINO IT
ON THE ROADWAYS, THAT HEAVY, WET
SNOW WEIGHING DOWNED TREE LIMBS
AND POWER LINES AND NOW IS THE
TEMPERATURES HAVE DROPPED IN THE
CONSISTENCY OF THIS NO CHANGES,
IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT
THAT IS STILL ON OUR STREETS AND
POWER LINES, MAKING TRAVEL
DIFFICULT AND MAKING IT PRONE TO
POWER OUTAGES, NOW THAT THE WIND
IS REALLY STARTING TO PICK UP
AND YOU MAY BE FEELING STRONGER
WIND GUSTS COMING ONSHORE,
WAS
ORIGINALLY SEVEN, SMITH HILL AT
29 AND 32 I WOULD DROP BELOW
FREEZING IN NEWPORT AND 32
DEGREES IN NEW BEDFORD.
THESE ERRORS ARE CHANGING
RAPIDLY AND WE ARE TRYING TO
KEEP UP WITH ALL THE SNOWFALL
AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU
SENDING THEM TO US.
FALL RIVER WITH NINE INCHES OF
SNOW, WESTPORT JUST GOT AN
UPDATED NUMBER, THEY ARE UP MORE
THAN 10 INCHES OF SNOW, NORTH
SMITHFIELD HAS TOP 10 INCHES.
CUMBERLAND WAS 7.5 INCHES OF
SNOW IN BRISTOL JUST AN UPDATED
NUMBER FROM TIM WHITE FAMILY OF
SEVEN INCHES OF SNOW AND EAST
PROVIDENCE, THE NUMBER NEEDED TO
BE UPDATED BECAUSE YOU JUST
MEASURED IN EAST PROVIDENCE
, 4.5
INCHES OF SNOW.
IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A LOT BUT
WE PICKED UP ABOUT 2.5 INCHES IN
THE LAST HOUR AND A HALF, SO
THOSE NUMBERS ARE ADDING UP.
WE DID CHANGE THE ACUTE RELATION
SLIGHTLY BASED ON THE BANDING WE
ARE SEEING IN THIS IS
FINE-TUNING THE FORECAST THINGS
THAT HAPPEN AS THE STORM IS
EVOLVING.
WE HAD THAT HEAVY BAND
OF SNOW
TO SET UP ACROSS THE NORTHERN
AND WESTERN PART OF RHODE
ISLAND.
WE HAD TO EXPAND THAT 12 INCH TO
18 INCH AMOUNT TO COVER THE
ENTIRE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND.
IT'S A LOT OF SNOW EVERYWHERE
WITH MOST OF US AT A QUARTER OR
MORE BY THE TIME WE HAD THE LATE
AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AND
THIS VIEW OF NORTH KINGSTOWN,
THAT THEY IS OUT THERE
SOMEWHERE.
IN THE FOREGROUND, THERE IS THIS
TREE BLOWING IN THE WIND AND
NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY AT TIMES,
PROVIDENCE HAS POOR VISIBILITY,
IF YOU LIKE 15.
WIND OUT OF THE NORTH AT 33
MILES PER HOUR AND A
NARRAGANSETT, THE VISIBILITY IS
A LITTLE BETTER HERE.
VARYING INTENSITIES OF SNOW AND
GUSTY WIND WILL LEAD TO VARYING
VISIBILITY.
IN GENERAL, EXPECTED TO BE
AROUND 125 MILES.
HERE'S THE RADAR, REALLY TWO
DISTINCTIVE BANDS OF SNOW THAT
ARE COMING TOGETHER.
HARTFORD HASN'T SEEN MUCH OF THE
WAY OF HEAVY SNOW, BUT THE BAND
IS CLOSING IN AND WE HAVE
ANOTHER HEAVY BAND SET UP
FROM
JUST ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF
BOSTON DOWN THROUGH NORTHWESTERN
RHODE ISLAND AND EASTERN LONG
ISLAND RIGHT NOW.
THERE LOOKS TO BE SOME
ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY
SNOW COMING ONSHORE OVER THE
CAPE AND FINALLY WE CAN IDENTIFY
THOSE BANDS IS BY TAKING AWAY
THE WINTER COLORS AND JUST
LOOKING AT THE SHADES OF GREEN
AND YELLOW, VERY INTENSE SNOW
FALL WHERE YOU SEE THE YELLOW
BANDS, THAT'S JEWISH OF THREE
INCHES -- TWO INCH TO THREE
INCHES.
SOME OF THOSE UPTON WHEELING IN
A WE ARE EXPECTING TO SEE THE
STRONGEST WIND AND SNOWFALL
RATES TO STAY PRETTY INTENSE
DURING THE EARLY IN THE
AFTERNOON.
73 MILES AN HOUR WIND
GUSTS, 53
MILE AN HOUR WIND GUSTS IN
FALSITY.
NEWPORT, PROVIDENCE AUGUSTA AND
BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MILES AN HOUR,
ESPECIALLY WITHIN THE LAST HOUR.
46 WOMEN ARE WIND GUSTS RECENTLY
IN NEWPORT AT 56 MY LOWER GUSTS,
HYANNIS AND NANTUCKET RECENTLY
GOT UPDATED TO 67 MILES PER
HOUR.
IT IS A LOOK AT THE WIND GUSTS
THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING WITH THE STRONGEST WIND
EXPECTED TO BE ALONG THE
COASTLINE, BUT THE HEAVY, WET
SNOW THAT WE HAVE SEEN ON TOP OF
OR BELOW WHAT IS NOW A DRYER
SNOW LEADING THE POWER OUTAGES.
I EXPECTED TO BE
FAIRLY
SCATTERED ALL ACROSS RHODE
ISLAND AND SOUTHEASTERN
MASSACHUSETTS.
HERE'S THE WAY THE WIND GUSTS
FUTURECAST GOES OVER THE NEXT 12
HOURS.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE
POTENTIAL FOR ON AVERAGE GUSTS
TO 50, NOONTIME AND 2:00 P.M.,
NOTICE THE INTENSITY OF THE WIND
RAPIDLY DROPS, WE STILL GUSTING
TO 40 MILES PER HOUR WELL INTO
THE EVENING AND NIGHT.
VERY DIFFICULT CONDITIONS
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AS
TEMPERATURES HOVER BETWEEN 30
AND 32 DEGREES, THE SNOW
CONTINUES TO FALL AND LIGHTER
SNOWFALL BY THE EVENING HOURS
AND THEN IT STARTS TO WIND DOWN.
BETWEEN 6:00 AND 8:00 IN THE
EVENING, DRIER CONDITIONS
OVERNIGHT.
STORM IMPACTS IS HEAVY SNOW
POWER OUTAGES, THE TWO BIG ONES.
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN URGED TO STAY
OFF THE ROADWAYS, VERY DIFFICULT
TRAVEL CONTINUES AND WE HAVE A
LITTLE BIT OF RAIN AT THE ONSET
OF THE STORM BUT THAT RISK HAS
COME TO AN END.
WE ARE GOING TO TAKE YOU
HOUR-BY-HOUR THROUGH THE REST OF
THE STORM COMING UP, RIGHT NOW
WE WANT TO GET A CHECK ON ROAD
CONDITIONS.
WE DO HAVE A CENTRAL STATE
EMPLOYEE -- ESSENTIAL STATE
EMPLOYEES THAT HAVE TO HIT THE
ROADS THROUGH DIFFERENT POINTS
IN THE DAY.
MELISSA, WHAT WILL HE FIND?