Hurricane Dorian: MA Braces As Deadly Storm Moves Up Coast

MASSACHUSETTS — The deadly Hurricane Dorian will pass well off the shores of southern New England Friday into Saturday but the region will still feel the storm's wrath. The storm's western reach was expected to hit Cape Cod and the Islands hardest. The Bay State will escape much of the devastation felt in southern parts of the country this week.

Dorian was forecast to barrel by Massachusetts as a Category 1 storm, potentially reaching far enough to whip up tropical storm-level wind gusts on Cape Cod and Nantucket and dump several inches of rain across parts the state, particularly the southeastern coast.

Dorian will come from the south in the early afternoon, reaching the Boston area just as the evening commute winds down. The storm will intensify late Friday into Saturday morning, bringing 2-4 inches of rain and wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour on the Cape and Islands, which remained under a tropical storm watch. Gusts of up to 40 mph were expected inside Interstate 95. You can see the simulated timeline via the National Weather Service below.

Forecasters warned of power outages and street flooding as Dorian moves past. Patch will update this story throughout the day.

The storm will impact ferry service to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.

Dorian made landfall in the US for the first time Friday morning, battering Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with 90 mph winds. The hurricane plunged some quarter of a million people in North and South Carolina into darkness overnight and was blamed for the death of at least one person there. There have been at least five storm-related deaths reported since Dorian reached Florida.

As a Category 5 hurricane, Dorian caused at least 30 deaths in the Bahamas, with hundreds more missing.

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