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It's a pretty decent pattern for some severe in the deep South. Been quite consistent for some days now.

Enjoy the rainstorm on the 27th. I'll be enjoying some severe weather down in Florida ahahahahahahahahaha

What probably really sucks is they really can’t get out there and do anything or fully assess until conditions improve. Probably have to wait until morning at this rate. It’s interesting to see how much of a difference a 30-40 or 35-45 mph gust event is vs something along the lines of 50-60. I certainly was not expecting that. When we see potential for widespread winds of 50-60+ they need to be played up. Just look at what happens in the summer when we get gusts 50-60. Granted the trees are fully leaved but it doesn’t take much to knock trees down here and for power outages to soar.

Wow 423,000 for Maine now.

400K for Maine

Up to 393K in Maine. Still with a potent LLJ there too and some pretty decent 2-6km lapse rates with that batch of heavy rain moving through.

They had a Ground Stop for a few hours. Was watching on FlightAware. Seemed like they were still operating and trying to land flights that were approaching but several were also in a holding pattern. Probably an uneasy feeling for many flying in the area today.

Just imagine once we get a derecho ripping 70-90 mph gusts to blow through. That would be fun to create a simulation of the advancing derecho and simultaneous power outages as the grids just explode.

Good news, you should tomorrow night

Certainly feeling optimistic where guidance continues to hedge moving towards the end of the month and into January. That pattern would certainly lead to the potential for some favorable storm tracks. Hopefully if we can get some coastal scenarios, even if there isn't a great deal of Arctic air available, we'll get saved by climo.

357K w/o power in Maine now. Can they make a run for 400K?

I wouldn't mind strapping an anemometer to me and going on the roof

Got very dark here and wind kicking back up. Wondering if winds will get strong enough to knock fence down.

Quite impressive

Highest this century? They've had to gust higher than 90 since 2000 in some of those other monster storm.

Good news is it looks like power outages are starting to drop in Connecticut. Maine looks like they may blow past 300,000.

Two big differentiators between last week and this were 1) Track was a bit further west 2) We were already dealing with a pretty intense storm moving up the coast, unlike last week where I believe much of the deepening was occurring within our latitudes. Both these factors, especially a track more west helped to really pump in some higher theta-e air. Temperatures in the upper 50's to lower 60's with dews not far off helped substantially aid in the mixing of winds. There was also certainly some convective enhancement and on a more widespread basis. This was absolutely without a doubt a pretty high impact storm. This is exactly why events like last week can't be hyped up. People end up downplaying these setups often because they are way too overhyped and people don't prepare or plan as properly. This is why communication is such a huge factor in the field of forecasting. You want to save the strong language for when it is absolutely needed. Let's say this event did not pan out...if we went on the heels of back-to-back events where winds were hyped and it didn't pan out...people are going to continue to lose confidence and just brush off this potential in the future. Weather gets hyped so much that I think its actually starting to impact lives and lead to injuries and deaths...and it's because everything gets hyped up so much when something significant actually happens, you get people who just brush it off and end up putting themselves in harms way. Now you can place blame on people for not taking the warning, but when everything is hyped up and nothing happens...people are just going to stop taking these situations seriously. The hype for this event totally played out and it was needed...but what happened last week certainly probably lead people to downplay this.

The Cape must be getting destroyed right now. That's some significant wind velocities not far from the sfc.

Wow...just had a pretty wild gust. If that happens again we may lose part of our fence...it was swaying back pretty good.

Looks like its the core of the LLJ...hope to hell that doesn't get mixed into.

talking about the line, not what already occurred.

BOS is going to get smoked in that line. I bet they gust close to 60, if not maybe a bit higher (mph)

Another good indicator that these wind gusts must be pretty uniform throughout the region is the spatial coverage of power outages. Power outages are quite high but they seems to be fairly evenly distributed within each state with the exception being like western Massachusetts but there really isn't any county or counties that are blowing anyone else out of the water.

Haven't had time to look around for highest or latest...but this makes a ton of sense now. When I had checked I as well noticed alot of 35-45 mph gusts and I was starting to think that the saturated grounds had played a significant role in the power outages/tree damage. Now...that certainly has attributed but I thought that along with 35-45 mph gusts couldn't possibly net 85K power outages...but seeing max gusts now 55-65...it makes absolute sense now.

Time to start watching for some thunderstorms to pop down in northern NJ, southeast NY, and then eventually into western Connecticut. Maybe another hour or two.