At 1 am...cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds...heavy rainfall and frequent lightning. Temperature around 65. South winds around 10 mph. At 3 am...showers and thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds...heavy rainfall and frequent lightning. Temperature around 61. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. At 5 am...cloudy with a chance of showers. Temperature around 60. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Forecast for Eastern Hampden
Updated: 9:44 PM EDT on July 11, 2009
Overnight
Showers with thunderstorms likely late this evening...then showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds...heavy rainfall and frequent lightning. Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
Sunday
Partly sunny in the morning...then clearing. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
At 1217 am EDT National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a line of strong thunderstorms with the potential to produce wind gusts to 40 mph along a line extending from 2 miles east of Greenfield to 3 miles north of Montgomery to 30 miles west of Tolland... ... moving east at 35 mph.
* Some locations affected include... Montague... Sunderland... Northampton... Easthampton... Southampton... Blandford... Hatfield... Erving... Leverett... Hadley... Montgomery... Wendell... Amherst... Russell... South Hadley... Orange... Shutesbury... Granby... New Salem... Pelham... Holyoke... Athol... Belchertown... Tolland... Phillipston... Petersham... Westfield... Templeton... Chicopee... Hardwick... Barre... Ware... Gardner... Hubbardston... New Braintree... Ashburnham... Ludlow... Wilbraham... Westminster... West Springfield... West Brookfield... Warren... Townsend... Springfield... Spencer... Southwick... Rutland... Princeton... Paxton... Palmer... Oakham... North Brookfield... Lunenburg... Leominster... Holden... Granville... Fitchburg... East Brookfield and Brookfield
The strongest storms were just west of Northampton. Very heavy rain and many lightning strikes can be expected in western Massachusetts between now and 115 am.
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. Do not drive through flooded areas.
These storms are producing frequent 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.
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1200 am EDT sun Jul 12 2009
At 1154 PM EDT National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a line of thunderstorms with the potential to produce wind gusts to 30 mph... frequent lightning strikes and brief torrential rain along a line extending from Buckland to 5 miles southwest of Chester to 43 miles west of Tolland... moving east at 35 mph.
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. Do not drive through flooded areas.
These storms are producing frequent 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.