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Damaging Wind With Forests Leveled


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6 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Went AWT.  Nothing out of the ordinary for a February wind event.  Busted hard here.  Never hit 50.  60-65mph takes a special set of cicumstances.

Yea you need se winds like March 2nd last year.  Euro wind map has performed exceptional as GUIDANCE the last couple of years. 

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8 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

There's a difference between 45 mph on NW flow and 60 mph on NW flow. It may not seem like much, but you can see a different level of damage as winds ramp up those 15 mph.

5-8 was wild. Although inversion heights slowly lowered after 21z, once 925 started to increase that’s when it really kicked in. 

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21 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

5-8 was wild. Although inversion heights slowly lowered after 21z, once 925 started to increase that’s when it really kicked in. 

We were just saying it was almost like the low level stability finally mixed out late in the afternoon and allowed the gusts to really power to the surface.

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Now the units are going to be a little unfamiliar, but they work out. I used the pressure differences between HIE and IZG, and NAMnest wind speeds (65 knots) to estimate how winds would accelerate from the NW side to the SE side of MWN.

100720 Pa - 100480 Pa = 1.225/2(33.44^2 - V^2)

Solving for V = 53 m/s = 103 knots

So you can see how pretty typically mid level winds can translate into some much higher gusts. Considering that local effect were likely more extreme than HIE-IZG and 148 knot gust is not surprising.

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1 hour ago, Cold Miser said:

What is a flavor savor?  Never heard that one before.

It's when you grow your beard out below your lower lip, so called presumably because it catches any dribbles that don't make it in your mouth. Also called a Soul Patch. Fred Durst had one when the band first became popular. It's not a good look on most.

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