Right. We'll get to Keith in just a minute.
But first check this out, Colorado got its first taste of snow for the season.
Some snow falling on a few of its mountains including Pikes Peak. But get this.
According to our sister station in Denver,
the snow actually came a few weeks later than usual.
Yeah. Typically Colorado expects the first snow
in late
August and I don't envy them
11,000 ft will do. Huh?
Yes.
Yeah. Wild. Meanwhile, here,
Blair,
it's like Blair with the side of what's, what's,
what's going on here for the weekend.
That's, that's what I got.
I feel like a lot of eyes are on the hurricane because of,
because of the uncertainty around it and which doesn't happen very often.
So we're gonna, we're gonna discuss it.
I was shaking hands kissing babies this weekend
and that's what people wanted to know.
I was like, what
is going on
with this storm? So we're gonna get
you to do that. I
wouldn't expect anything else. Yeah, that's what people say about
showers out there right now. A lot of cloud cover we're socked in.
You have a hard time.
I mentioned look at that little break coming
into your county in the Cumberland County,
maybe very late in the afternoon.
Almost not helpful at all. We'll see sun right before sunset. I don't think at least
most of the night will be cloudy. Temperatures really don't fall much.
We're in the mid and upper sixties, a couple of showers still hanging around.
Not a ton of heavy rainfall.
First half of the day tomorrow, generally cloudy, but better than today.
I think we get a little bit
warmer. A few more breaks of sun.
And then in the afternoon,
a front comes through with some showers and some thunderstorms,
some downpours in there too.
And that front kind of lingers into the northern
mid coast into Downeast Maine through Thursday morning.
So we start Thursday morning with showers there,
the rest of us with some clouds,
but I think we clear out pretty rapidly and get into a nice afternoon,
Thursday afternoon.
And actually Friday looks like the best day of the work week. It's a little cool.
I only in the upper sixties, but it should be dry
and relatively pleasant.
That takes us through the week.
So now let's talk about hurricane Lee, which is still category three winds.
115 miles an hour gust to 140. Looks pretty good on the presentation.
Keep in mind way southern latitude, it's still just about level with Miami.
So it's got a long way to go before it gets here
and it will take until Saturday passing to the west of Bermuda as a category two storm
and then it kind of falls apart. Look the northern
to do a couple of things to tropical systems. One is the ocean water isn't that warm?
Two, the jet stream starts taking effect, elongating, shearing apart storms.
So I think we're looking at Lee coming to our west here as either a
low end category or kind of a dying category one or a tropical storm.
My money is on it being a tropical storm by the
time it gets to our latitude that will happen on Saturday.
So what are the impacts here?
Well,
the European model is by far the most west with it
kind of slingshots it back still no direct landfall in Maine,
but it brings the core a lot closer the GFS farther east, more progressive.
We really on the edge of this storm.
I think the best way to address this is
what's the worst case scenario, let's say the Euro is right.
It is the closest of all the models. What does that look like?
It looks like a rainy
and very windy day
with gusts of 50 to
55 miles an hour. And I'm not going to downplay that,
but I'm going to say that it happens, right.
I mean, we get gusts of 50 to 55 miles an hour in north East.
The next factor here is of course,
that the leaves are squarely on all the trees and the ground is very saturated.
We saw how that played out. I believe it was 2017.
We had a big fall event because it was so wet before.
So I think a situation like this would have a lot of power outages.
But I just want people to understand when we talk about hurricane Lee,
we talk about hit or miss we're not talking about,
is it 90 or 100
MPH sustained winds? That's not
on the table. So
prepare that way. The waves offshore big, I mean, 20 ft at least.
So that will be a factor. Beach erosion will be a factor. This is not nothing guys.
I don't want you to take that away. I just want people to understand that
us getting
a storm with those kind of winds is not on the table.
And I think that's what you think when you hear
hurricane, right? And so that's where we're at. It will be an impactful day.
It will be
how power
is as it stands. Still time for this to wobble, right? I mean, if it goes further east,
less and less impacts, right?
But that's where we are right now.
I tend to buy a little bit more of that western track. Am I understanding you to say
yes, we will have waves that kind of crash up onto the roads.
There will be roads that get washed up.
But we are not talking about multiple feet of storm surge, large, large,
large amounts of water covering roads, not as it stands.
I think the biggest problem is going to be erosion like it's more
distant
than some of our northeasters. So that will be a problem.
And again, we're not talking about taking out people's homes. I don't think so.
I mean, unless you're right there, you know, I mean, there's 10
homes out there just to be clear.
But, but also I just, I think about, like people talking about, I, I had a question.
Should I be boarding up windows? It's not that kind of situation,
you know. So, just so we're clear on that. Ok. No need to panic.
All right. Thanks.