Often referred to as a grey day in December, our corner of the world will be under a wind advisory from 10 a.m. through 10 p.m. this evening. We are also under a flood watch which will be posted through 1 a.m. Wednesday. As always, an advisory or watch will never be ignored.
Our current temperatures are in the low to mid 40’s and the latest reports out of Chatham claim peak gusts of 31 mph which are expected to reach the 50 mph range later on today. The heaviest rains are expected late this afternoon with downpours moving in this evening.
In spite of the feigned pained expressions delivered by the off-Cape weather celebrities, our being on the edge of this system will bring us nothing more than conditions we’ve endured earlier this fall. While we may realize spotty outages, it is in fact a grey day on the Cape.
As a lifelong resident of the outer Cape I was the third generation to pick up the mantel in the family construction business. In my early twenties, I called the Cape my home on weekends as I spent several years working for a variety of off-Cape commercial construction companies. My site supervision resume includes two supermarkets, two HUD projects, a funeral home and a handful of steel industrial buildings as well as various restaurant and office remodels.