High Wind in Nantucket, Massachusetts

High Wind April 13, 2020 · Nantucket, Massachusetts

62 mph

Measured gust (54 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

At the Nantucket Airport a wind gust of 61 mph was reported at 220 PM EST (320 PM EDT). In Siasconset there was a 62 mph gust reported at 231 PM EST.

The wider storm

A powerful low pressure system tracked across the Great Lakes and brought strong and damaging winds to all of Massachusetts Monday late morning through the evening. A very strong and highly anomalous low level jet brought southerly wind gusts of 60-70 mph ahead of a cold front that moved through Monday evening.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 877210. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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