Big Wind Friday

LongBay · 12-23-2022, 11:49 AM

Never seen whitecaps and rollers so big going up Paugus Bay. It's a good thing the ice has not started to form. There would have been a lot of dock damage.

Biggd · 12-23-2022, 12:13 PM

Anyone lose power yet?

fatlazyless · 12-23-2022, 12:51 PM

Mt Washington supposedly had wind gusts above 140-mph, sometime this morning ...... www.mountwashington.org/weathercams/deckcam.aspx .....
should have positioned a WMUR volunteer, out there, up close to this window for Mt Washington show & tell .....

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Resident 2B · 12-23-2022, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Mt Washington supposedly had wind gusts above 140-mph, sometime this morning ...... www.mountwashington.org/weathercams/deckcam.aspx .....
should have positioned a WMUR volunteer, out there, up close to this window for Mt Washington show & tell .....

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The Mt Washington Observatory record a gust of 150 MPH at 8:10 AM this morning.

WillyK · 12-23-2022, 11:30 PM

Following updates on this NHEC page: https://www.nhec.com/elliott/
They estimate 23,000 without power as of 7pm this evening, and warn it’s going to be a few days for many folks.

We are down in MA for Christmas, but driving up now to check on status. Our generator is turned off because it’s causing problems with the furnace electronics (never a good time for an outage, but grrr…this one is especially frustrating!). But if we can spin that up, we’ll have power, just no heat, hopefully enough to keep sump and water pumps going to ride it out.

ishoot308 · 12-23-2022, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by LongBay

Never seen whitecaps and rollers so big going up Paugus Bay. It's a good thing the ice has not started to form. There would have been a lot of dock damage.

My cameras on Welch, which are surprisingly still up and running, are showing not much wave action but massive spray just coming off the top of the water. This is pretty typical when the wind gets above 25-30 mph. Waves seem to be worse below that wind speed. Im sure there is a scientific explanation / word for that but dammed if know it!!

Merry Christmas!!

Dan

12-23-2022, 11:30 PM	#5
WillyK Member Join Date: Nov 2020 Posts: 21 Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 3 Posts	NHEC power outage updates Following updates on this NHEC page: https://www.nhec.com/elliott/ They estimate 23,000 without power as of 7pm this evening, and warn it’s going to be a few days for many folks. We are down in MA for Christmas, but driving up now to check on status. Our generator is turned off because it’s causing problems with the furnace electronics (never a good time for an outage, but grrr…this one is especially frustrating!). But if we can spin that up, we’ll have power, just no heat, hopefully enough to keep sump and water pumps going to ride it out.

12-23-2022, 11:49 AM	#1
LongBay Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 151 Thanks: 48 Thanked 61 Times in 35 Posts	Never seen whitecaps and rollers so big going up Paugus Bay. It's a good thing the ice has not started to form. There would have been a lot of dock damage.

12-23-2022, 12:13 PM	#2
Biggd Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2016 Location: Waltham Ma./Meredith NH Posts: 4,194 Thanks: 2,269 Thanked 1,217 Times in 776 Posts	Anyone lose power yet?

12-23-2022, 12:51 PM	#3
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,807 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 301 Thanked 1,027 Times in 747 Posts	Mt Washington supposedly had wind gusts above 140-mph, sometime this morning ...... www.mountwashington.org/weathercams/deckcam.aspx ..... should have positioned a WMUR volunteer, out there, up close to this window for Mt Washington show & tell ..... .