This photo, snapped at 6:50 a.m. by the GOES-16 satellite, shows that even though Dorian is still centered on the North Carolina coast, its cloud bands are already here. At 9:20 a.m., on NWS Boston-area radar, you could see a rain band from it approaching Nantucket. Read more.

The latest Hurricane Dorian report from the National Hurricane Center, issued at 11 a.m., puts the Boston area on the edge of a map of possible hits on Friday. But even if that doesn't happen - and as we already know from the storm, it's particularly unpredictable, it still looks like we could get some heavy winds from it.