I bust his balls, but wind is definitely the most difficult common weather variable for home weather stations to get sited accurately. Most people have trees or can’t get the anny on the roof.
I’m sure 10mph on his deck surrounded by oaks probably translates to 30-40mph. Maybe we can get a bumper crop of lantern flies and gypsies next year to take his oaks down.
When I said “weenie” Wellfleet site I didn’t mean it was wrong or incorrectly sited. Just that it’s in a perfect elevated spot to maximize wind. They’re the peak wind in a lot of events.
The one on Block Island is on a bluff too (Mohegan Bluffs) but I’m not aware of any elevation there near 150ft. Maybe there is and I’ll eat my hat.
We’re not really in line for wind up here. It was breezy this morning, but once the showers moved in the temp wetbulbed down, we got inverted, and lost the little mixing we had.
Yeah the euro has been pretty consistent with that 60-70kt window around 6z at 925…I can’t see 950 without point-clicking soundings and trying to interpret overlapping barbs, but it looks like 50-55kt around that time.
That weenie Wellfleet anny had 70 earlier and it’s at 100ft. The New Shoreham is 144ft on the shore. So if it’s accurate it isn’t exactly representative of the 10m wind.
The wind data at least looks consistent.
https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=F8194&hours=72
Euro kinda has 2 pulses...tonight with better vertical mixing and then Sat night with a stronger LLJ, but more wet/inverted away from the water. But it's still NE 65kt at 925 and 55kt at 950 for Ditty below the inversion.