The Boston area is in for a long stormy, windy weekend, as a nor’easter moves through the Atlantic coast with effects set to hit the New England region as early as Thursday.
“We are expecting a coastal storm to move up from the south, from the Delaware coast and mid-Atlantic coast, up into the southern New England waters,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Emily McMinn. “We’ll start to see impacts as early as (Thursday), with some slowly increasing winds and rough sea conditions.”
Peak impacts of the storm are expected to hit the region Friday into Saturday, NWS forecasts show. Winds gusts are expected to reach 35 to 45, or potentially even 50, miles per hour over land Saturday, with peak gusts around coastline areas around Boston, Plymouth, the Cape and Islands, and immediate south coast, McMinn said.
Marine conditions are forecasted to get “quite rough,” the meteorologist added, as seas reach 12 to 15 feet at times, especially along the outer Cape and Nantucket, and 20 to 25 feet possibly along outer waters.
“Certainly, if you have to be out driving, just be careful with how high these winds are going to be, and they’re going to be coming from the northeast,” said McMinn, noting that with the prolonged rainfall Friday through Sunday, hydroplaning is also a possibility.
Forecasters are watching coastal flooding, especially along the Boston Harbor, Plymouth area and Nantucket, McMinn said. Aerial flooding is also a possibility, but the risk of flash flooding is “very low,” she added.
An early-season Nor'Easter will rapidly intensify and bring major coastal flooding impacts to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Coasts through this weekend. Those in coastal New Enlgand can also expect strong wind gusts and heavy rainfall.https://t.co/o5cxJlONPR pic.twitter.com/8b77RHyV6y
— National Weather Service (@NWS) September 23, 2026
The area around southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island may see four to eight inches of rain, AccuWeather predictions stated.
The storm is expected to be “long-duration” for many areas along the mid-Atlantic and New England coasts, according to AccuWeather forecasts. Areas along the central Atlantic coast began to feel impacts midweek as the storm moved north.
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AccuWeather warned that with winds that could “approach that of a strong tropical storm or hurricane in southeastern New England” and recent rains making trees “top-heavy”, there may be a risk of “widespread power outages.”
“There’s still a little uncertainty on when the onset time is going to be Friday,” said McMinn. … “But we are expecting things to start ramping up throughout the day Friday, and peak is going to be Friday night into Saturday.”
Conditions are expected to “slowly calm” Sunday into Monday, but the whole period is expected to be a “raw, miserable weekend,” McMinn said.
Original article[Potential Coastal Storm Fri-Sun] After a dry week we are tracking an early season nor'easter Friday to Sunday bringing rain, strong to damaging wind gusts, as well as coastal flooding/beach erosion. pic.twitter.com/uSpZFiUx8c
— NWS Boston (@NWSBoston) September 23, 2026
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