High Wind in Nantucket, Massachusetts

High Wind December 5, 2020 · Nantucket, Massachusetts

61 mph

Measured gust (53 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

In Siasconset at 10 PM EST a CWOP station reported a wind gust to 61 mph. Earlier at 5:53 PM EST the ASOS at Nantucket Airport (KACK) reported a wind gust of 53 mph.

The wider storm

A rapidly intensifying storm system produced strong to damaging winds and heavy rain (2-4 inches) which changed to a period of heavy snow in the higher elevations. The low pressure system crossed between Nantucket and Cape Cod before lifting northeast.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 927750. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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