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I will still take cutters over boring San Diego weather

Theres more wind right now than there was during the peak last night.

Sucks that we can't even get an impressive wind event with all these cutters. 12/18 didn't do it for me and this one looks even weaker. Can't get major snow or wind down here to save our lives.

Yeah I just don't see this being a generational event around here. Not based on models and what people are saying.

Hopefully its a sign of an overperformer here as well?

Its just a shame that these big wind events always seem to happen at night. Thats one of the reasons why 03/02/18 was special. 12/18 happened during the day but in my area it wasn't anything notable.

Just once in my life I want to see one

The blizzard with the most intense winds was Feb 2013. That was nuts. Too bad it happened at night. Would've been amazing to see during the day.

Wow hopefully I get the chance to see some big wind like that. The 1950s had many big cutters and hurricanes. The wind and cold snaps on 12/31/62 and Groundhog Day 1976 are super impressive. I always wonder how strong the winds got on Cold Friday in 1810. I heard that houses were unroofed and destroyed.

Really? That would be great. The 925 NAM looked slightly less impressive for the 13th than for this one. Hopefully it's wrong.

Yep for my area in terms of non tropical ranked in order from strongest winds it would be: 12/24/94 (which may have been tropical) and 03/02/18 (tied, 1994 had slightly stronger gusts but 2018 had stronger sustained for longer), then 10/29/17, 10/27/21, 02/08/13 (Nemo), 12/23/22, and 12/18/23. Irene, Sandy and Isaias had some big wind too.

10/29-30/17 was definitely up there and one of my more memorable wind events, but still a notch below 12/24/94 and 03/02/18 based on records at PVD. 10/29 had like 2 hours of violence versus 12/24/94 and 03/02/18 which both had like 6 hours of violence.

Oh nice Attleboro is just north of me. I'm very young and I wasn't born until 1996. I have never gotten to see a hurricane. I've done extensive research on wind records at PVD, and that's how I know that 12/24/94 had winds similar to 03/02/18 (in terms of longevity of both high sustained as well as gusts). Bob actually ranks below 1994! Yeah 1994 was the one with subtropical characteristics.

Depends on how big the wind is. I would definitely be willing to give up a foot of snow if November 1950 walked through the door.

Actually I live in Seekonk which is pretty close to the I-95 corridor. We typically do get more wind than inland areas, but 12/18 was nothing special honestly. Much more notable in Boston specifically. 50 mph sustained and 68 mph gusts for an extended period is huge for them. The benchmark for winds in my area is 03/02/18 which had 47 sustained for many hours with gusts to 65+. That was a special event. Before that, 12/24/94 was the last wind event of that magnitude. But 03/02/18 and 12/24/94 are super rare. The 1950s had several events even bigger than those two.

Yeah thats how I feel about this one as well. Actually the 13th one doesnt look promising for big wind either unfortunately. Hopefully that changes. Even 12/18 was actually pretty run of the mill imby. The 12/23/22 grinch storm 2 years ago had bigger wind.

Yeah I'm just not that impressed with this one honestly. Maybe it overperforms but not likely.

Any particular analogs for this that come to mind? I mean for us, not for the south.

About 2" of slop that I can't shovel and will freeze to cement. Hope we can turn things around soon.

The fact that the 1/7 storm has really underperformed here makes me want this to be a severe wind event even more. But we will see. 9/10 times winds fail to verify.

Oh wow really? I figured 1938 was stronger but the records didnt go back that far. Where did you find that out? I compliled this list for PVD: Days with a maximum sustained wind speed of ≥ 45 mph (72 km/h) – (1942 – 2023): 1. 08/31/1954 - 75 mph 2. 03/06/1959 - 53 mph 3. 09/27/1985 - 52 mph 4. 09/12/1960 - 51 mph 5. 12/02/1942 & 09/11/1954 - 50 mph 7. 08/04/2015 - 48 mph 8. 11/21/1956, 11/28/1958 & 03/02/2018 - 47 mph 11. 11/07/1953, 03/20/1958, 12/30/1962, 12/13/1976, 01/26/1978, 12/24/1994, 03/06/1997, 02/08/2013, 10/29/2017 & 10/27/2021 - 46 mph 21. 02/16/1967, 01/23/2005 & 12/23/2022 - 45 mph Days with a maximum wind gust of ≥ 64 mph (103 km/h) – (1953 – 2023): 1. 08/31/1954 - 105 mph 2. 09/12/1960 & 09/27/1985 - 81 mph 4. 09/11/1954 - 79 mph 5. 12/20/2009 - 74 mph 6. 09/14/1956 & 01/26/1978 - 73 mph 8. 03/20/1958 & 11/28/1958 - 71 mph 10. 03/06/1959 - 70 mph 11. 12/07/1953, 11/09/1957, 11/30/1963 & 02/16/1967 - 68 mph 15. 02/06/1978 - 67 mph 16. 12/30/1962, 08/04/2015 & 01/29/2022 - 66 mph 19. 03/02/2018 - 65 mph 20. 12/24/1994, 08/28/2011 & 12/23/2022 - 64 mph

I look back at records for PVD and the 1950s were wild for wind. What a time to be alive. Hurricanes and massive wind cutters. In terms of cutters, March 6, 1959 actually stands out as having the strongest sustained winds at 53 mph for several hours which is the second strongest sustained on record for PVD, only behind Hurricane Carol in 1954.

Personally I'm more of a wind fetish kind of guy than flooding. But its usually the wind that always underperforms while rain usually doesnt

Yeah thats what I noticed as well. The H9 winds were insane with that one on 12/18. This one looks much more tame overall. Not sure about 01/13 yet but I highly doubt that rivals 12/18 either.

Okay so not as severe as 12/18 then