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Tropical Storm — Southern Middlesex, CT

Aug 22, 2021

Tropical storm Henri with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph made landfall on the Rhode Island coast, near Westerly, at 12:30pm EDT Sunday, August 22. Henri then continued turning to the west as the storm weakened over Connecticut becoming a depression by evening. Henri meandered towards the Lower Hudson Valley of New York as the storm continued to interact with an upper level trough, before being swept eastward off the New England coast late in the day on Monday August 23, 2021.||Tropical storm

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 981337). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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