High Wind in Block Island, Rhode Island

High Wind March 14, 2017 · Block Island, Rhode Island

61 mph

Measured gust (53 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

Marine mesonet reported a 61 mph gust 2 miles NNE of Dunn Landing at 1141 AM.

The wider storm

A major winter storm moved up the east coast, hugging the southern NJ coast then moving rapidly northeast across southern Rhode Island and interior southeast Massachusetts. In Rhode Island, snowfall amounts were highest in the northwest hills, where a changeover to sleet and rain did not happen until late in the afternoon. Along the south coast, only 2 to 6 inches fell, but more around a foot occurred in northwest Providence County. Strong/damaging winds gusted to 45 to 60 mph across much of Rhode Island.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 683079. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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