Schooner Ernestina was due to sail with Accept, Inc. today for the Homeward Bound Program based in Brewster. We postponed the program due to the weather.

You can see from the NOAA National Weather Service Chart for this morning shown at right the low pressure systems creating clouds, rain and a strong NE flow of air over the New England coast. It looks especially bad off Cape Hatteras!

This image is a 0600Z Surface Analysis overlay on a GOES-8 satellite image issued at 0715Z Tuesday, June 6, 2000. Please see the NWS website for extensive weather information.

COASTAL MARINE FORECAST
National Weather Service Taunton MA 0315 AM EDT Tue Jun 6 2000 from the Merrimack river MA to Watch Hill RI, out to 25 NM

Synopsis-
315 AM EDT Tue Jun 6 2000
Low pressure developing off the Virginia coast this morning will intensify into A gale center as it tracks NE today. It is expected to pass about 125 miles SE of Nantucket tonight, and reach Nova Scotia Wed morning. High pressure over the Great Lakes will build E Wed afternoon.

Cape Cod Bay-
Coastal waters from Merrimack river MA to Chatham MA, Out to 25 NM-
315 AM EDT Tue Jun 6 2000

Gale warning
Today: NE Wind 25 to 35 kts. Seas building to 6 to 12 feet. Visibility lowering below 2 miles in rain and fog.
Tonight: NE Wind 25 to 35 kts, becoming NW 20 to 30 kts late. seas 6 to 12 feet. Visibility below 2 miles in rain and fog, improving after midnight. Tides 1 to 2 feet above normal, causing minor coastal flooding at high tide.
Wed: NW Wind 20 to 25 kts, decreasing to 15 to 20 kts late. Seas 5 to 10 feet, highest E of Cape Cod, subsiding to 3 to 6 feet late.

Captain: Amanda Madeira
Program Coordinator: Crista Mellican