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High Wind in Nantucket, Massachusetts

High Wind April 19, 2022 · Nantucket, Massachusetts

62 mph
Measured gust (54 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

At 458 AM EDT (358 AM EST), the ASOS at the Nantucket Airport (KACK) recorded a wind gust to 62 mph. No damage was reported on the island.

The wider storm

A coastal storm moved northward from the mid-Atlantic coast late on the 18th to interior New England during the pre-dawn morning hours on the 19th. Locally heavy rainfall helped bring down damaging wind gusts from a low-level jet across Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts. The storm system also brought 1 to 4 inches of snow to the east slopes of the Berkshires in northwest Massachusetts.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1009862. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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