At 4 am...showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds...heavy rainfall and frequent lightning. Temperature around 65. Southwest winds around 15 mph. At 6 am...showers with thunderstorms likely. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds...heavy rainfall and frequent lightning. Temperature around 66. Southwest winds around 15 mph. At 8 am...showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Temperature around 68. Southwest winds around 15 mph.
Forecast for Barnstable
Updated: 9:44 PM EDT on July 11, 2009
Overnight
A chance of showers late this evening...then showers with thunderstorms likely. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds...heavy rainfall and frequent lightning. Not as cool. Near steady temperature in the mid 60s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
Sunday
Cloudy with showers likely in the morning...then partly sunny with a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
At 256 am EDT National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a line of thunderstorms with the potential to produce brief street flooding rains... lightning strikes and southwest wind gusts to 35 mph along a line extending from 25 miles north of Provincetown to 3 miles south of Provincetown to 8 miles southwest of Bourne to 31 miles west of West Tisbury... moving east at 35 mph.
The area of coverage for this statement is Cape Cod and Marthas Vineyard.
This is probably the last primary band of showers and storms to pass through southeastern New England... though one more widely scattered band of storms is entering northwest Massachusetts but weakening.
* Some locations affected include... Sandwich... Truro... Mashpee... Wellfleet... Falmouth... Barnstable... Dennis... Yarmouth... Hyannis... Tisbury... West Tisbury... Brewster... Vineyard Haven... Eastham... Orleans... Oak Bluffs and Harwich
For your safety... get inside when these storms approach. Heavy rain may cause minor street flooding as well as ponding of water in poor drainage areas.
This storm is producing cloud to ground lightning. Get indoors or inside a vehicle now! If you are caught outside... stay away from isolated tall objects such as trees. Avoid open areas such as Golf courses or Ball fields.