The focus Tuesday is on Hurricane Melissa as it nears the Jamaican coast. With devastating winds, storm surge and inundating rainfall/mudslides, the storm will likely go down in history as one of the biggest in the Caribbean — if not the Atlantic Basin. With a track far off the Eastern Seaboard, this will not be a consequential storm for us later in the week.

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The storm that wards this hurricane off is sitting to our south and promises to bring in heavy rain and some wind late Thursday. In the meantime, our weather gradually slides downhill in the coming days.

Clouds slowly tighten up this afternoon, and a few light showers will break out late Tuesday night and Wednesday. Overall, Wednesday is a drab, chilly day wit

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