Active Weather
A quiet morning across all six states. The National Weather Service active alert feed, read at 1:01 this morning Eastern time, lists no active alerts for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Vermont.
The Storm Prediction Center's overnight outlook, issued at 7:58 last evening Central time, places no severe thunderstorm risk anywhere in the Northeast. Its outlook for today, issued yesterday afternoon, puts the only marginal severe risk in the country from the central Plains into the Upper Midwest, roughly a thousand miles west of here.
The Weather Prediction Center's excessive rainfall discussion, issued at 8:57 last evening Eastern time, carries no flooding risk area for New England today or tomorrow.
Infrastructure
No large wildfires are burning in any New England state on the National Interagency Fire Center's current incident list.
The national wildfire preparedness level is 4 on a five step scale, set September 4 at 7:30 in the morning Mountain time, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Its national fire news page, current September 7, counts 65 large fires with 15,855 firefighters and support staff assigned, and 53,233 fires for 8,303,398 acres so far this year.
No new federal disaster declarations for any New England state appear in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's declarations record since the middle of August. That record was read directly from the agency's open data service this morning.
Public Health
No air quality alerts are active in any of the six states.
No boil water advisories were identified across the region.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Alert Network archive could not be read this run, so this brief makes no claim about national health advisories in either direction.
Watch Item
The item worth knowing today is what is not there. The National Hurricane Center's Atlantic tropical weather outlook, issued at 8:00 last evening Eastern time, says tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next seven days anywhere in the North Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea, or the Gulf.
That is a notable sentence for the second week of September, which sits at the climatological peak of the Atlantic season. It does not mean the season is over. It means the next week is clear, and a clear week in September is the week to do the thing you have been meaning to do.
For a New England household that mostly means two items. The first is the coastal one: knowing whether your address sits in an evacuation zone, which is a five minute lookup on your state emergency management site and a fact that does not change. The second is the power one, because the same nor'easter and hurricane remnants that reach this region in the fall are the events that take the lights out for two or three days.
Looking further out, the Weather Prediction Center's extended discussion, issued at 1:41 yesterday afternoon Eastern time, has an upper level trough pushing across the Northeast late this week with a cold front bringing showers and thunderstorms Wednesday into Thursday. The front is expected to move quickly, which limits the flooding potential. Rainfall totals should be ordinary.
This is a good week to run the freezer test. Fill a cup with water, freeze it, set a coin on top of the ice, and leave it there. If the power goes out while you are away and comes back before you return, the coin tells you whether the food thawed. It costs nothing and it answers a question that is otherwise a guess.
Explore Today
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The starting point if you are building household readiness from nothing.