
Hurricane Earl is expected to glance this area late Friday, the National Weather Service said Thursday morning in a weather bulletin.
While a tropical storm watch was issued Wednesday night for southern Connecticut and the surrounding area, Suffolk County on Long Island is under a tropical storm warning.
The hurricane "is forecast to pass about 150 miles southeast of Long Island Friday evening," the weather service said.
It doesn’t quite stand up to par with the most fruitful inventions, such as the light bulb or the automobile, but the discovery made by former Congressman Joel Pritchard at his home on Bainbridge Island, Wash., during the summer of 1965 certainly hasn’t lacked in providing entertainment.
That’s when Pritchard, along with his friend Bill Bell, created the sport known as pickleball, which intertwines aspects of the most well-known racquet sports: badminton, table tennis and tennis.