Stormpc Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 My shed with about 500lbs of equipment blew 30 feet or so away from its position and the roof and doors are gone. Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Ground stop at DCA. DCA don't do so well with NW winds and one NE/SW runway. Crabbin' hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Just came in from a high wind walk. WOW! Awesome out there! Haven't had wind like this in a couple years. Very impressive. Heard what sounded like a tree snapping in the distance. If the trees had leaves. We would be in trouble. There would be widespread power outages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Hourly updates not coming in on weather.gov or wunder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 NWS tweeted the 61 mph gust at IAD https://twitter.com/NWS_BaltWash/status/443928452970713088 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Yeah...if we had leaves on the trees for this, it'd be carnage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StudentOfClimatology Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Can't tell but from here but it looks like one of my neighbor's big white pines is no longer standing. Edit: Yep, looks like it snapped ~ 10-15ft up..will get pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T. August Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 My home weather station recorded 40+ AT LEAST 4 TIMES lol! Peak gust of 48 mph here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Yeah...if we had leaves on the trees for this, it'd be carnage. I've been thinking the same thing. Thawed squishy ground had me a little concerned when I was looking at models yesterday. So far so good but the gusts have definitely outperformed what I was thinking last night. I figured we would all see 40's. The reports of widespread 50's and some 60's are pretty wild. My fireplace glass is rattling so much I opened them up just in case. Wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Too bad I'll be out the door for work before sunup, as I'm looking forward to seeing what things look like after this. Gotta wait for the ride home, I guess. I have no idea what winds are gusting to here, but it's a lot, and it's really noisy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Should be about peak now.. tho it's going to be a while before things calm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I've been thinking the same thing. Thawed squishy ground had me a little concerned when I was looking at models yesterday. So far so good but the gusts have definitely outperformed what I was thinking last night. I figured we would all see 40's. The reports of widespread 50's and some 60's are pretty wild. My fireplace glass is rattling so much I opened them up just in case. Wow Exactly. The ground is pretty soft right now, and in confident we'd have seen a lot of trees down if leaves were out. Pines and cedars might be having some trouble tonight. I was watching my 30' holly a little nervously earlier... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherCCB Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Roaring winds here last 2 hrs. Large branch just snapped and did considerable damage to my neighbors truck hood. Pretty impressive outside. Hoping to not lose power . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Sustained 35+kts at Thomas point light in the middle bay last hour. Gale conditions. Driving the bay bridge tonight in an rv would be white knuckle 2 hands on the wheel kinda stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interesting Times Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 47mph, my new record high. Hit 46mph during Sandy and didn't have power to record the gusts during the Derecho. I'm pretty sure the gust that dropped a 100-year-old oak tree on my house during Isabel in 2003 was 60+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Sustained 35+kts at Thomas point light in the middle bay last hour. Gale conditions. Driving the bay bridge tonight in an rv would be white knuckle 2 hands on the wheel kinda stuf whippin winds on the water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Damn Ian. Night surfing at Bloody Point is wide open tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T. August Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Sounds like it's starting to calm down out there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Damn Ian. Night surfing at Bloody Point is wide open tonight Also shows the corn fuel effect along 95 from DC to Baltimore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Sustained 35+kts at Thomas point light in the middle bay last hour. Gale conditions. Driving the bay bridge tonight in an rv would be white knuckle 2 hands on the wheel kinda stuff NBCWashington @nbcwashington 45m JUST IN: Only passenger vehicles allowed to cross Bay Bridge due to high wind speeds http://bit.ly/1kNnEfq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Temp down 33F in the last 5 hours from the high of 63F here in Clarksburg. Peak gust was 57mph from the WSW around 45 minutes ago. Winds have gone nearly calm to 5mph from the NNW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Also shows the corn fuel effect along 95 from DC to Baltimore. Lol- all the pretty reds distracted me. HtripleR picking up on the lee of the fall line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 True Grade A Mega Front. 29 degree temerpature drop here in 4 hours(63 to 34) and continuous gusts over 40mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freestater Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Gusts making a rebound after about 10 minutes of calm, too loud to sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Lol- all the pretty reds distracted me. HtripleR picking up on the lee of the fall line?Yeah I guess that might be it. DCA never does quite as well on NW winds. S or E winds are the ticket.. Well maybe any direction other than w or NW. Super strong south winds aren't too common I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StudentOfClimatology Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 This has been fun. I'm all in on a Hazel redux now. Better yet, let's go for another 1896. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Happy this did not wait 6 more hours or we would have had a cheap, puke high of 60 for Thursday which would totally distort the reality of the event. I do think though that low 30's for tomorrow afternooon will be tough. No snow cover and even 3/93 was upper 20's with full snowpack. Even so, tomorrow will likely be one of the top 5 coldest, full sun, mid March days in 30 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Yeah I guess that might be it. DCA never does quite as well on NW winds. S or E winds are the ticket.. Well maybe any direction other than w or NW. Super strong south winds aren't too common I guess. It's an interesting topic that we should discuss down the line. Bay channeling does a good job maximizing s-se winds but not nearly as strong as caa w-nw flow events. I would guess that llj influence and mixing has a lot to do with that. S-se wind events are kinda limited by relying on gradient from offshore high pressure so it's mostly surface winds in play. But anywhere east of the fall line will do well wind wise before the up and over effect shelters areas just to the west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravensrule Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Just lost my power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pityflakes Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Power's out. Lots of red on Domimion's outage map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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