What is happening
The areas affected include... Moriches Inlet to Montauk Point NY out 20 nm... Eastern Long Island Sound... Peconic and Gardiners Bays... At 1242 AM EST, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms along a line extending from near Falkner Island to 13 nm E of Shinnecock Bay, moving NE at 30 kt. These heavy showers and thunderstorms will be near... Dering Harbor, Gardiners Bay, Long Sand Shoal, Six Mile Reef, Westbrook Center, and Shelter Island around 1250 AM EST. Orient Point and the mouth of the Connecticut River around 1255 AM EST. Gardiners Island, Napeague Bay, Plum Island, and Essex Village around 100 AM EST. Montauk Shoal, The Race, Niantic Bay, and Montauk Point around 110 AM EST. Western Block Island Sound around 115 AM EST. Fishers Island and New London Harbor around 120 AM EST. Stonington and Fishers Island Sound around 125 AM EST.
Official instructions
Mariners can expect heavy downpours and some lightning strikes.
