Hurricane fallout should affect Butler County lightly
Hurricane Ian made landfall more than 1,100 miles from Butler on Wednesday, but its effects still will be felt in Western Pennsylvania.
According to a meteorologist with National Weather Service of Pittsburgh, the Category 3 hurricane’s projected trajectory won’t make as much of an impact as past hurricanes have.
“At this point, there is not a lot of rain predicted to hit Western Pennsylvania,” said meteorologist Lee Hendricks. “For our area, the general effect is (the weather system’s) push along the East Coast, and it slows down weather systems farther to the west. That slows down our weather pattern, so we’ll keep in a relatively cool area.”
Hendricks said Ian is predicted to move across the breadth of Florida into the western Atlantic, where its residue will come back ashore into North Carolina and northeast Tennessee, where it will finally slow down and dissipate.
It should be over by Sunday morning, and the local weather pattern will reflect the effects that afternoon.
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