At 11 pm Henri was at 38.6N 71.0W, or precisely where the HWRF had it on their 18z run. Since this model has been the most accurate at every measuring point as was mentioned earlier, I would put the landfall in Newport, RI as the HWRF shows.
No consistency in these hurricane models. The 18z HMON now has a cat 1 @ hr 84 and is further northeast and will pass just E of ACK as a weaker TS. The 18z HWRF is now a much weaker system and is a strong TS @ hr 84.
12z HWRF has a cat 3-4 about 300 mi south of the cape @ hr 90 but which then rapidly weakens before coming ashore in LI and CT. The HMON has a very weak TS or even a depression @hr 90. Quite a variance in those two hurricane models.
Yeah, the GFS @ day 6-7 has 30" of snow for parts of central ME on the fantasy snow maps. And it has another 30" for the remainder of the run, lol.
57°F here now. Max was 58°.
It seems that this winter the models have shown us that at 7 days out a snowstorm has about a 10% chance of verifying, while at 7 days out a rainstorm has about a 90% chance of verifying.
The Euro has 2-4"+ of qpf over the 6 state region the next 10 days, so drought hysterics are a bit premature if that verifies. And we are just going into the seasonal time for spring rains.