Oh my. 55 mph winds is fairly "typical" of high wind events in this area...but when you're up at hurricane force well...that's a frightening situation. I sincerely hope no one has been injured.
Thanks for posting that...I was curious how hard she was blowing last night. Mid-50s gusts down here in Lanco, sounds like the models were pretty much spot on. Nice to know they do well with winds.
THAT is a very impressive ensemble mean at this range. If that ain't a good honking i don't know what is...
We've had so many long range threats this winter turn into turds. Let's hope this one locks in and gets better. There are things to be cautiously excited about...but yeah...
Umm...you must not be an avid kite-ist like my wife and I. Do you have any idea what those kind of winds would do to a kite?
We're looking for 10-15 mph optimally.
Oh. That's a game changer. Well, a lot of people get hung up driving across that bridge...combination of height, turns, narrow lanes and low railings are enough to have people stationed on both sides to drive people across in their cars.
That might be the most difficult 4.5 miles of driving you've done in your life yet.
I drove across it once when I was 18...I was heading from an O's game over to Rehoboth to join my family on vacation. Got to the bridge just minutes before a severe thunderstorm hit. I was extremely naive at the time and didn't realize how horrible that trip would have been if i was 5 minutes later.
I just don't have a good comeback for that. lol
One concern I have in the coming weeks is the sheer number of systems being modeled. I just hope they don't cause interference with each other and muck something up. I kinda remember that happening a few times previously where there just wasn't enough space/distance for one discreet wave to blow up. That, and we're still largely in a progressive pattern.
Thoughts?
State of the snowpack:
I reached 51.4 for my high today (GFS you suck) and I have just over 3" in the front yard (faces east) and 1.5" in the back yard. (faces west)
Had we not had so much water in that pack I'd have nothing left.