New Bedford Guide Your Guide to New Bedford and South Coast, MA
Meteorologists are closely watching a weather event that will arrive in Massachusetts this weekend. The storm will develop in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, and then make a march up the Atlantic Coast towards us. The greatest impact is expected to be late Friday night or overnight Saturday morning.
What makes this storm problematic not being able to predict whether it will pass out to the Atlantic Ocean causing very minor adverse weather or a worst-case scenario whereby it sticks to the coastline.
The second scenario will entail either heavy rain and flooding or up to 3 inches of snow along with high wind gusts leaving even higher drifts.
The determining factor on what the SouthCoast receives is the path of another storm that is heading to the area and traveling west to east along the US/Canadian border. The two storms may merge into a more powerful one or the timing may be off leaving the storm coming from the south to be of a weaker nature.
Historically, these are the exact unpredictable storms, are a sort of crapshoot – it may turn out to be a fizzle, or turn out that they meteorologists are way off and we end up getting walloped: we may get plenty of plowable snow, wind gusts leading to downed power lines, and making travel extremely hazardous.
In which case, it might be prudent heed the warning and head to the supermarket to stock up on bread and milk in case you lose power and have to live off of French Toast until it returns.
