Irene's winds topped 70 mph on Western Shore
The National Weather Service's forecast office in Sterling, Va. has posted top wind gusts during Irene's passage across its coverage area west of the Chesapeake. Looks like Calvert County recorded some of the worst conditions on our side of the bay:
Top sustained winds: 56 mph, Calvert Cliffs.
Top wind gusts: 73 mph, Cobb Island buoy; 72 mph, Calvert Cliffs, Chesapeake Beach, Gaithersburg
Top rain total: 12.96 inches, West Plum Point, Calvert County; 12 inches, Perry Hall
OTHER WIND DATA: SUSTAINED WINDS
Point Lookout: 43 mph
Middle River: 42 mph
Solomons: 41 mph
GUSTS:
Bay Ridge: 69 mph
Highland Beach: 68 mph
Solomons: 68 mph
Patuxent River: 64 mph
North Beach: 64 mph
Posted by Frank Roylance at 4:03 PM | Permalink
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Categories: By the numbers, Hurricanes
Categories: By the numbers, Hurricanes
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FR: Stands to reason, doesn't it? The hurricane warning was posted for the Chesapeake Bay South of Drum Point, meaning that hurricane conditions were expected throughout that area and, if I'm not mistaken, except for Gaithersburg, Perry Hall, and Middle River, all of the locations you listed - certainly those where the highest numbers were observed - lay within the zone of the hurricane warning, right?
FR REPLIES: Not really. North Beach, Bay Ridge and Highland Beach are all well north of Drum Point, closer to Annapolis. Solomons and the Patuxent River station are very close to Drum Point, which is at the mouth of the Patuxent River. Even so, they were all closer to the Hurricane Warning zone than most of the forecast area. And, I suspect their proximity to the Bay and exposure to the east winds off the bay also may have been a big factor.
Posted by: trebort49 | August 29, 2011 11:43 AM