Pictured Above: Morning Warning on the Peconics
Good Morning!
• Today starts off with a light east wind turning into a gale by this evening, with a high today around 51 degrees. Rain is expected to begin after 4 p.m., with a southeast wind 22 to 32 miles per hour overnight, gusting as high as 60 mph, with rainfall of 1 to 2 inches possible.
“While the height of the storm is anticipated to impact the county during the evening and overnight hours, I strongly advise our residents to avoid travel as heavy rainfall, strong wind gusts and potential flooding are all possible,” says new Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine, who issued a State of Emergency late Monday in anticipation of the storm.
• The East End is under a high wind warning from 6 p.m. tonight until 6 a.m. Wednesday, a coastal flood warning from 4 p.m. today until 1 p.m. Wednesday, and a flood watch (for non-coastal areas, due to rain) from 6 p.m. tonight until noon tomorrow. Skies are expected to clear Wednesday, but it will be breezy, with a southwest wind 18 to 20 miles per hour, gusting to 39. Thursday will be sunny, with a high near 45.
• Widespread moderate coastal flooding of 2 to 2.5 feet above ground level is expected with this storm, according to the National Weather Service, with large breaking waves of 15 to 20 feet along the oceanfront. The peak time of the storm surge of 4 to 5 feet is expected between high tide cycles Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning, but the NWS is forecasting the possibility of “locally major flooding” from Freeport eastward on the South Shore, with particular concern along the eastern Great South Bay from Lindenhurst to Mastic and along the bay side of Fire Island.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
January 9
Plum Gut Harbor: 7:45 a.m., 8:13 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 6:53 a.m., 7:21 p.m.
Greenport: 8:22 a.m., 8:50 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 9:11 a.m., 9:49 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 8:17 a.m., 8:45 p.m.
New Suffolk: 9:44 a.m., 10:12 p.m.
South Jamesport: 9;51 a.m., 10:19 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 6:51 a.m., 7:19 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 5 a.m., 5:28 p.m.
January 10
Plum Gut Harbor: 8:30 a.m., 8:57 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 7:38 a.m., 8:05 p.m.
Greenport: 9:07 a.m., 9:34 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 10:01 a.m., 10:37 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 9:02 a.m., 9:29 p.m.
New Suffolk: 10:29 a.m., 10:56 p.m.
South Jamesport: 10:36 a.m., 11:03 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 7:41 a.m., 8:08 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 5:50 a.m., 6:17 p.m.
• The East Hampton Town Board intends this morning at its 11 a.m. work session to appoint Ian Calder-Piedmonte to fill the board seat left vacant following former Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez’s recent election to the Supervisor’s position. Mr. Calder-Piedmonte, a co-owner of Balsam Farms, has served as an East Hampton Town Planning Board member since 2012, and has also been a board member of Edible School Gardens, and LTV. At the work session, the board will also discuss the Fire Island to Montauk Point (FIMP) Army Corps of Engineers work slated to begin this winter along the town’s oceanfront coast. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on LTV’s YouTube channel.
• The Southampton Town Board holds public hearings on the town’s Community Housing Fund Project Plan, improvements to the Hampton Bays Water District, a Historic Preservation and Conservation Easement at 560 Bridge Lane in Sagaponack and the Community Housing Fund acquisition of the land of the Euell Family Trust in Southampton Village at its 1 p.m. meeting this afternoon. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on Sea-TV’s YouTube channel.
• The Shelter Island Town Board will discuss the contract renewal for Stony Brook Medicine’s EMS fly car on the island, municipal zoning referrals to the Suffolk County Planning Commission, Town Board priorities for the new year and a Jan. 18 blood drive (at the town’s Youth Center from 12:30 to 6 p.m.) at its 1 p.m. work session this afternoon. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live here.
• The Hamptons Observatory holds a virtual lecture on “Time Machines and Spaceships: The Search for Life,” by Dr. Heather Graham of the Agnostic Biosignature Collective at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center this evening at 7 p.m. Register online for this free event at hamptonsobservatory.org.
• The New Suffolk School Board is slated to give the public an update on their plans for a vote to create a non-instructional school district this evening at 7 p.m. All are welcome.
• The Village of Greenport hosts a community Vision For Greenport workshop on ‘Housing That’s Affordable’ and on updates to the village code and Local Waterfront Revitalization Program on Thursday, Jan. 11 at 6 p.m. at the Third Street Firehouse. All are welcome to attend.
And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.
