Predicted path of Hurricane Sandy as of 11 a.m. Saturday. (National Hurricane Center, National Weather Service)
BOSTON — Hurricane Sandy is expected to make landfall on the eastern seaboard late Monday night. Even though eastern Mass. is not currently within the storm’s predicted path, Meteorologist Mark Rosenthal said the Greater Boston area could start feeling Sandy’s effects as early as Sunday evening:
On the 11 a.m. advisory, Sandy is located about 350 miles to the south/southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, moving off to the north at ten miles an hour. Top winds are still 75 mph, but the pressure is falling — so that’s indicative that winds will soon start to pick up.
Latest computer models still show it moving north/northeast, probably passing about 100 miles south/southwest of Cape Cod and then taking a left hook and moving off to the west/southwest, just south of Long Island, probably into New Jersey very late on Monday night and Tuesday morning.
It all means wind-swept soaking rain begins in the Greater Boston area by very late Sunday night or Monday morning. Monday afternoon the winds are going to pick up here from the east/southeast. There will be serious coastal flooding, lots of power outages, freshwater flooding, and rain and wind should continue throughout much of Tuesday as well.
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