High Wind in Block Island, Rhode Island

High Wind March 2, 2021 · Block Island, Rhode Island

64 mph

Measured gust (56 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

At 2 AM EST on March 2nd, a mesonet site at the Block Island Jetty recorded a wind gust to 65 mph. A separate report of a 58 mph gust was received from New Shoreham at 357 AM EST.

The wider storm

An arctic cold front moved through southern New England on the afternoon of March 1st. It was followed by very strong/damaging west-northwest winds, which continued through much of the night and into the early morning hours on March 2nd. There were several reports of downed trees in northern Rhode Island.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 937911. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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