It's Going To Be A Hot One

Eddie Cipri rested under an umbrella at Bluff Point and watched passing boats ripple the water.

“Feel that nice breeze?  It’s that, and that I’m a little protected from the sun here, and I’ve got my feet in the water. Those three things make it bearable,” he said.

Temperatures were expected to break 90 degree in Groton today, but as of Thursday, Groton’s manager of emergency communications said people were enduring the heat wave.

Joseph Sastre said the town’s senior center and library are open for people to stop and cool off, as are malls and movie theaters. He said the town is prepared if it needs to open a cooling center, but it hasn’t had to so far.

“We’ve got everything ready to go in case we do,” he said. “Especially if we have a lot of power outrages and people lose their air conditioning and they start losing their fans. . . “We’ve got everybody on standby.”

The National Weather Service forecast is listed below, through Monday:

Friday: Isolated showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 92. West wind between 5 and 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 71. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Saturday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 89. North wind at 9 mph becoming west. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Saturday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 68. West wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 82.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 60.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 80.

Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65.