Westerly — Weekapaug, R.I., is one of several area neighborhoods under multiple National Weather Service advisories as a "slow-moving cold front" approaches.

According to the National Weather Service, Westerly faces a high risk for rip currents through Tuesday evening and a chance of coastal flooding during Wednesday morning's high tide.

The mid-week storm could bring more than 3 inches of rain to parts of southeastern Connecticut.

The National Weather Service is not expecting Tropical Storm Joaquin, currently southwest of Bermuda, to have a major impact in the region, but its coastal flood advisory says to expect "renewed heavy rainfall" and flooding in advance of the storm, beginning Friday.

Norwich officials from several emergency response agencies and city departments attended a National Weather Service webinar Tuesday afternoon that included information about this week's expected heavy rainfall and an as-yet-inexact projection for Tropical Storm Joaquin, Norwich Public Utilities General Manager and Acting City Manager John Bilda said.

Bilda said the city can expect "rain for the next seven days" starting late Tuesday night.

Wednesday's storm could bring "very localized" flooding caused by periods of intense heavy rain.

The city Emergency Management Department is preparing with several thousand sandbags for floodprone areas.

"We'll have a better idea about Joaquin in 75 hours," Bilda said Tuesday evening.