BOSTON – Ernesto continues to slowly strengthen and is forecast to become a hurricane later Tuesday night or Wednesday, and in a few days Massachusetts will feel some impacts from the storm on the coast.
It is going to take a dramatic turn to the north in the next 24 hours and make a beeline for Bermuda.
Ernesto’s storm path
Current forecasts bring the center of Ernesto very close to Bermuda Saturday morning as a Category 2 hurricane and there is a chance it could be even stronger than that.
Once it passes Bermuda it is then expected to gradually turn north-northeasterly, avoiding any sort of landfall in the northeastern U.S.
Ernesto spaghetti models
If we look at a spaghetti plot with a number of current weather model forecast tracks, the average distance from Boston is about 500 miles to the east.
This is, of course, good news for New England as we will almost certainly avoid any rain or wind associated with Ernesto.