Tropical Storm Philippe to eye Bermuda, northern New England

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AccuWeather forecasters say Philippe could skirt Bermuda before making landfall in Maine, threatening heavy rain, strong winds and storm surge early next week.

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00:00 Tropical Storm Felipe is the only organized system in town here for the Atlantic Basin,

00:05 a couple of other tropical waves.

00:06 But Felipe is a storm that's had a lot of longevity and it also is not just bringing

00:11 impacts right now to some of the Caribbean.

00:13 You can see it's centered not too far to the east, northeast, at least the deeper convection

00:17 just of the Puerto Rico area and also into the U.S. Virgin Islands.

00:21 We're dealing with some locally heavy rain.

00:23 We've seen some very heavy rain.

00:25 Some areas are retaliating four plus inches into some of the northern Leeward Islands,

00:30 the British Virgin Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Vieques, Culebra, and eastern

00:34 Puerto Rico seeing two to four inches out of this event.

00:37 It's bringing some risk to lives and property.

00:39 It is a manageable storm, but still flash flooding is a true danger in a lot of these

00:43 areas here.

00:44 This storm is bringing an active weather real impacts scale rating of less than one to the

00:48 northeast Caribbean.

00:49 Now, this storm has a future that is a pretty compelling storyline.

00:53 It's going to barrel right across Bermuda as a tropical storm late this week.

00:58 It's also probably going to make landfall somewhere close to where tropical storm Lee

01:03 made landfall.

01:05 At that time, it was a tropical rainstorm when Lee finally made it so far north.

01:10 But this system will be either a tropical storm, a subtropical storm, or kind of a hybrid

01:16 as it morphs into a cold, angry, North Atlantic low.

01:19 And it's also going to be dealing with some extra moisture and some changes in the atmosphere

01:24 as a cold front also reaches the northeast within 12 hours of Philippe's arrival.

01:28 So it's going to be a very high impact time.

01:30 In the meantime, for Bermuda, 40 to 60 mile per hour wind gusts.

01:33 It's going to be moving swiftly to the north, so two to four inches of rain expected there.

01:37 Some risk to lives and property.

01:38 Bermuda is well prepared for this storm like this.

01:41 But here we go into the end of the week.

01:43 This is where it really gets interesting from a New England perspective.

01:47 Here's our cold front.

01:48 That's going to bring some very heavy rain.

01:50 We could see some flash flooding into areas around Albany, New York and into places near

01:55 say Burlington and Plattsburgh, down into western parts of Massachusetts, Adams, North

02:00 Adams and so forth.

02:02 But then here we have Philippe and this is going to be a really interesting merger more

02:06 or less for at least the shield of rain between the front and then the tropical moisture.

02:11 Widespread rain rolls in Saturday night to Sunday through eastern Maine and into places

02:16 like the Canadian Maritime.

02:18 So it turns sharply cooler across the northeast.

02:20 It's going to be a really murky time here into the state of Maine with widespread rain

02:24 from Philippe.

02:25 That map was only showing Philippe's rain though as we're going to have heavier rain

02:28 farther to the west.

02:29 And we're looking at 40 to 60 mile per hour wind gusts for eastern Maine, so down east

02:33 Maine into the Canadian Maritimes.

02:34 And also two to four inches of rain possible for places like Calais and Batchias up into

02:38 areas around Caribou, Presque Isle and Holton.

02:41 Once you get down to the southwest near Bangor, one to two inches of rain.

02:44 Portland, probably under an inch of rain tied to this.

02:46 So some risk to lives and property, but a fairly manageable storm on at least hurricane

02:52 standards.

02:53 Again, we're looking at a tropical storm, probably either a tropical, subtropical or

02:56 some kind of a hybrid system as it morphs into a cooler system moving farther north.

03:02 So we're going to have a lot more on this over the next couple of days.

03:05 Lots of action in the northeast Friday night, Saturday and Sunday.

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