[Weather] [2025.12.18 PM] NWS Boston EM Briefing: Strong to Damaging Winds Friday

[BOX Operations - NOAA Service Account]

Good afternoon,

Please find attached an updated one page briefing and supporting graphics
regarding the potential for strong to damaging winds on Friday.

*Changes since last briefing:*

   - High Wind Warnings expanded to include southern Rhode Island and all
   of coastal Massachusetts.
   - No threat for coastal flooding with this event.

*Other key points:*

   - Strongest southerly wind gusts to 55 to 65 mph are anticipated across
   southern Rhode Island, coastal Massachusetts, and the Cape and Islands from
   late morning into the early afternoon. Otherwise, wind gusts to 40 to 50
   mph are expected Friday morning across the rest of southern New England.
   - Possibility of extending High Wind Warnings inland across southeast
   Massachusetts and northern Rhode Island.
   - Strong post-frontal west wind gusts to 40-50 mph expected Friday
   night, with greatest risk over the Berkshires, Worcester Hills and the
   Islands.

Meteorologists Torry Dooley and Francis Tarasiewicz


If you have any questions or would like more information, please don't
hesitate to contact us. You can reach us via:
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phone: 508.622.3280
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