February 2019 Observations and Discussions

CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:Good Lord a whole page on wind with not a flake of snow involved in this event.

This winter has fallen to a new low.

The most dramatic weather event was a snow squall. Now its superseded by wind. pathetic. just pathetic.

Winds are kicking in

Wow rwinds right on schedule, we just had a gust roar through, I have to be honest I have not heard a gust like that here in a very long time. startled me.

Definitely howling here..

Dtone wrote:Definitely howling here..

And this is nothing compared to whats coming if the warning is right, which it appears to be on point.

jmanley32 wrote:

Dtone wrote:Definitely howling here..

And this is nothing compared to whats coming if the warning is right, which it appears to be on point.

yeah.. I hear it. One kid sick with a stomach virus and the winds promise to be ferocious. 44° and wind gust of 20 mph.

Front passed through and wow have the winds picked up, had a 22 mph gust here already. 20 -24 hours of this will produce power loss.

amugs wrote:Front passed through and wow have the winds picked up, had a 22 mph gust here already. 20 -24 hours of this will produce power loss.

Yes. And with lows in the upper teens tomorrow it will be very dangerous for those without heat.

Thursday/Friday clipper may bring some of us some white gold  EPS mean is 2" from NNJ North. About I78 North.
GFS is way north as usual Dr NO arrgghh watch this  good for sht model be right!!

Where is the squall line with this like in Jan?? That would be so awesome!

Great chart from Ben Noll pro met. Beaufort wind chart

amugs wrote:Where is the squall line with this like in Jan?? That would be so awesome!

mugs sure will cause outages especially if we surpass 60mph as nws says. already there are well over a half million outages to our west and SW. I like this site its a good snapshot, you can click your state.

https://poweroutage.us/

amugs wrote:Great chart from Ben Noll pro met. Beaufort wind chart

Yeah it forgets to mention downed trees after 50mph, even at 40mph plus it can happen. Funny they mention structural damage before any tree damage.

Winds are howling out of the west 34mph with gust up to 48mph.

32 degrees, light snow showers, howling wind.Woke me up during the night, house making creaking noises,lol.

32 here with a few gusts this am of about 53 mph. It is windy but there is some calm between gusts. I guess today toward the afternoon is when it uncorks.

I am sure a lot of people are tired today! currently sustained winds at 28 and rattle the windows gusts a lot higher..

Wind was definitely making its presence known all night. My house is wood-frame so when its windy, I know it. lol. Unfortunately the other tell-tale sign is the littering of unsecured trash across my neighborhood. It ain't even trash night folks, keep your trash secured!

I like what the GFS is doing QPF wise for my back yard at least.

Dprsnt appear to me the winds are nearly as strong as hww criteria. Is it going to get worse or die out from here? Not many outages in this area I suppose that's a good think. But it was def keep me up last night very loud.

jmanley32 wrote:Dprsnt appear to me the winds are nearly as strong as hww criteria. Is it going to get worse or die out from here? Not many outages in this area I suppose that's a good think. But it was def keep me up last night very loud.

Just another wind forecast that never quite lived up to what was expected.

sroc4 wrote:

jmanley32 wrote:Dprsnt appear to me the winds are nearly as strong as hww criteria. Is it going to get worse or die out from here? Not many outages in this area I suppose that's a good think. But it was def keep me up last night very loud.

Just another wind forecast that never quite lived up to what was expected.  

just saw the reports list it did live up to it just not widespread over 55mph but some gusts out by you around 66mph wow. North of me 59mph.

Right now I’m having intermittent power outages at my house. It will go off for a minute then come back on. Then a little while later go off again. I’m PSEG which is doing ok right now. Doesn’t appear widespread but there has been a spike in JCPL outages in the last couple hours.

PSEG outage map I took off their website. Does not look so bad right now. Hope it remains that way.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/outagecenter.pseg.com/external/m.html

Current wind gust map for New Jersey courtesy of Rutgers. Generally 30-40 mph. Highest is about 54 mph at the shore and near 50 in Hunterdon County area.

https://www.njweather.org/maps/nj-statewide-wind-gusts

Looks like my area had around 50 as a top wind gust so far.Glad the outages are not that bad.After losing power 8 days from Sandy, I am scarred for life having no power.Looks like peak winds are now to evening when they say diminishing will occur.It's been howling non stop all day, partly cloudy.Might get a few inches Wednesday and more snow/slop Thursday-Friday.From discussions in the other thread, looks like the next two weeks could be the last train out for winter weather.That storm track was set in stone, everything to our west.

billg315 wrote:Wind was definitely making its presence known all night. My house is wood-frame so when its windy, I know it. lol.  Unfortunately the other tell-tale sign is the littering of unsecured trash across my neighborhood.   It ain't even trash night folks, keep your trash secured!

It was recycling night here in Branchburg.  Cans and bottles are all over the place.  I left mine inside and figured I can wait until next time.  I did lose my trampoline to the wind (found it 3 houses down) and also lost a tree in my backyard that crushed 2 sections of fence around my pool.  That happened around 10 am this morning.  That kind of stunk! Highest wind my station registered was 46 mph.