The National Ocean Service's (NOS) Coast Survey Development Laboratory is implementing NOAA's Local Analysis and Prediction System (LAPS) for the Narragansett Bay watershed and adjacent coastal waters as part of a 3-year project funded by the National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP) and lead by The University of Rhode Island (URI) and Drexel University. LAPS meteorological analyses and forecasts will be used as surface forcing for a real-time oceanographic nowcast/forecast system. Presently, the Narragansett Bay LAPS (NBLAPS) uses real-time observations from traditional networks including surface airway stations, NWS Coastal-Marine Automated Network stations and fixed buoys. NBLAPS also ingests observations from the 6 stations of the NOS Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS) in Narragansett Bay. NOS and URI are working with the NWS Weather Forecast Offices in Taunton, Massachusetts and Upton, New York, to obtain and ingest observations from local real-time mesoscale observing networks (i.e. mesonets) operated by state and educational institutions in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts as well as ferries operating between the mainland and the islands of Block Island, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. The 3-D analyses from NBLAPS will be used as the initial conditions for a non-hydrostatic atmospheric forecast model; either the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model or the non-hydrostatic version of the Eta model. The analyses and forecasts will be verified using observations from traditional observing platform, mesonets, as well as from the NWS cooperative climate stations in the watershed and 25 stations comprising the Rhode Island-Bristol County Observer Network.