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High Wind in Southeast Middlesex, Massachusetts

High Wind March 1, 2021 – March 2, 2021 · Southeast Middlesex, Massachusetts

63 mph
Measured gust (55 kt)
$2K
Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

In Cambridge at 302 AM EST on March 2, a wind gust to 63 mph was recorded. Earlier, to the west in Westford, gusts to 55 mph were recorded at 9 PM and 1115 PM EST on March 1. In Woburn at 947 PM EST on March 1, a tree was down onto a garage on Williams Lane.

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 many reports of downed trees and at one point, more than 60,000 customers were without power in Massachusetts.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 940281. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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