Much ado ...

In the end, Earl turned out to deliver just a few hours of rain with some breeze. It seriously lost power yesterday, going from 140mph winds at the core to less than 70mph by the time it reached the waters off New England. The core also kept well east of the coast, so we only saw 15mph winds.

All of that excitement, for a gentle evening rain. And now the sun is back out!

At arm's reach

Good news for us: hurricane Earl has stayed to the Eastern side of the forecast path, and it currently appears the brunt of the storm will only hit the outer Cape and Nantucket. We'll just get an arm or two, with the forecast for tonight calling for 25 mph winds and plenty of rain. Not too exciting considering.

Hurricane Warning

So far Hurricane Earl is following the track that was forecast, looks like it will just skim the outer banks in North Carolina and then mostly stay off the coast in the mid-atlantic region. Up here in Boston though, it looks a little more intense: the current projections give something like 30% chance of the center of the storm passing pretty close to us and we're officially under hurricane warning for tomorrow afternoon and evening. Still, the current forecast only calls for 20 mph winds here in Somerville, a far cry from the 50+ predicted for Nantucket island.

We've got plenty of food, water, candles, and dvds, and our place is on a bit of a hill anyway, so no worries but plenty of excitement.