High Wind in Block Island, Rhode Island

High Wind December 23, 2022 · Block Island, Rhode Island

58 mph

Measured gust (50 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

At 551 PM, the AWOS station at the Block Island Airport (KBID) recorded a wind gust of 58 mph.

The wider storm

Low pressure deepened rapidly as it tracked through the eastern Great Lakes.

The storm produced damaging southeast to south winds across much of southern New England and minor to moderate coastal flooding the east and south coasts. Two to 3.5 inches of rain fell across much of RI and interior MA.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1064185. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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