Hi, this is Meteorologist Steve Pelletier, and I'm the Weatherman. Thanks for checking into theweathermanpod.com on your Wednesday. It is the 29th day of the month of October. And first we're going to talk about Hurricane Melissa. Hurricane Melissa is uh was moving over uh eastern Cuba, probably just to the west of Guantanamo Bay, and then we'll be passing off the north shore of eastern Cuba during the morning hours today, and then from that point, it'll be going uh just over the southern Bahamas, probably off to the west of the Turk and Caicoast, and uh probably right over uh Inagua Island, which is an island uh in extreme southern Bermuda. From that point, uh, this will be happening during the afternoon hours uh today, and but it will continue to move towards the north and east. We're expecting it to be uh as still as a major hurricane uh for the next day or so, but then diminishing somewhat as it goes closer to Bermuda, probably passing just to the west of the Bermuda Island, sometime later Thursday and Thursday evening, after which time it will go into the North Atlantic. Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica during the afternoon hours on Tuesday as a category five storm with some of the wind gusts up to 175 miles per hour. But now the storm is expected to continue the move northeast and may re-strengthen a bit because it did lose a little bit of its punch when it moved across Jamaica. We'll lose also more strength moving over eastern Cuba. From that point, though, it will re-strengthen over the southern Bahamas, then move towards the northeast before weakening a little bit further towards uh get closer to Bermuda and then into the North Atlantic. Maximum sustained winds are near 130 miles per hour moving over Cuba and then into the open waters between the eastern shores of Cuba and southern Bermuda, excuse me, the southern Bahamas, and then we'll continue to hold that strength as it moves towards the west of Bermuda over the next couple of days. So again, the main problem for Bermuda will most likely be during the daytime on Thursday as the storm approaches. Hopefully it'll stay just a bit off to the west. But either way, it will be strong winds and lots of rain in Bermuda as we head into Thursday. And of course, uh passing through the southern Bahamas today and then into the open waters for a while before it reaches that Bermuda destination. For the eastern sea board more, a lot of cloud cover is forming towards the north and uh rainy conditions across the Tennessee Valley, Kentucky, Tennessee today, also in lots of rain, possibly some uh flash flooding in those places, northern Alabama, northern Mississippi, and the low pressure system is gonna continue to advance towards central North Carolina, then off the Carolina coast uh by the time we get towards later Thursday and Friday. But it's gonna bring a soaker, a much needed soaker, I might add, from the Mid-Atlantic up into the Northeast, including southern New England during the daytime on Thursday, with a slow, gradual improvement as we get into Friday. And this upcoming weekend, so it does look like it's gonna start drying out for Halloween Friday, but fairer but cooler conditions coming up for both Saturday and Sunday, the first and second of the new month of November. So, as mentioned, if you're flying today, it looks like just uh light weather moving into Philadelphia. A little bit of rain into Baltimore and D.C., but uh as you head further north, just cloud cover in the New York, Norwich, LaGuardia, JFK area, and also some rainy conditions from a storm offshore around Boston and the Cape, also into the Portsmouth area of New Hampshire and up towards uh Portland, Maine. We're also looking at the possibility of some rain. That's going to spread all across the region, so there will be some delays into those places during the daytime Thursday. Thursday is gonna be the tough day for flying in the northeast. And it is uh lots of rainy conditions in Atlanta and in Charlotte, so some delays there. Clearing conditions in Central and South Florida, as uh Melissa will be tracking to the east of the Florida Peninsula. So no problems there, just a north flow, and that'll clear things out. Dry weather in Houston and Dallas and some cooler conditions too, looking at fair weather in Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, from San Diego, LA, San Francisco, all the way up to Portland. The weather's looking pretty good, just some residual rains in Seattle, Tacoma during the daytime today. I'm Eddy Roger, Steve Fellatier. Talk to you first thing on Thursday. I'll talk about uh Melissa as it gets closer to the Bermuda Island sometime in the afternoon and evening on Thursday.