[Update: 5:20 p.m.] Should wet weather wash out the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular rescheduled for Thursday, officials will consider postponing the show until the weekend, Saturday July 5.
If 2morrow’s #Esplanade is a washout, consideration will be given to moving it to Sat July 5th. Stay tuned to http://t.co/ym4PuECuU1
— Dustin Fitch (@DustinGFitch) July 2, 2014
[Update: 4:30 p.m.] Boston’s Fourth of July fireworks shows on the Esplanade has been rescheduled for Thursday night, July 3, with Tropical Storm Arthur making moves up the East Coast.
BREAKING: Boston will hold Fourth of July concert, fireworks on Thursday instead of Friday due to impending storm. http://t.co/U5Lw0IAzPV
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) July 2, 2014
Arthur, which is expected to develop into a Category One hurricane Thursday, is on track to reach Boston by Friday evening, bringing with thunderstorms and heavy rains.
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Earlier: Tropical Storm Arthur is making its way up the East Coast, threatening to hamper Fourth of July travel plans and events, including the planned fireworks show on the Boston Esplanade.
Massachusetts State Trooper Dustin Fitch told BostInno on Twitter that meetings are being held today to discuss contingency plans for Friday’s fireworks show on the Esplanade, in the event Arthur makes its presence felt in Boston Friday evening.
@NBoroyan Meetings today about it, hopefully any changes, if any, will be decided tonight. We’ll announce it, if there is.
— Dustin Fitch (@DustinGFitch) July 2, 2014
CNN is reporting that Arthur is expected to eventually become a Category 1 hurricane by Thursday, producing top winds speeds upwards of 75 mph off the southeastern coast of North Carolina. Arthur’s current path would see it reach Boston Friday night, bringing with it a chance of thunderstorms later into the evening.
This year’s Boston Pops Firework Spectacular concert is scheduled to start at 8:30 p.m. Friday night, with fireworks planned to start at 10:30 p.m.
“It’s hard to pinpoint the exact timing [of Arthur’s impact on Boston],” meteorologist Bill Simpson of the National Weather Service told the Boston Globe, “but we want to emphasize periods of tropical downpours for Thursday into Friday. The storm passes east of Cape Cod late Friday night, but what’s well out ahead of it … could be causing problems here.”
