High Wind in Block Island, Rhode Island

High Wind November 15, 2020 · Block Island, Rhode Island

69 mph

Measured gust (60 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

At New Shoreham (Block Island) at 901 PM EST, a mesonet site recorded a wind gust to 69 mph. The same site recorded a gust to 68 mph at 936 PM EST and 62 mph at 1016 PM EST.

The wider storm

A warm front moved through southern New England in the evening, followed by strong to damaging wind gusts. A cold front then moved through late in the evening, accompanied by a fine line of thunderstorms, which also produced some damaging winds.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 925546. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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