Northern Ohio Obs/Discussion Part 2

[Floydbuster]

Here in Summit County, it did not seem as bad as nearly all the surrounding areas. I actually did not lose power, surprisingly. Anyone know what the record highest winds are in the Cleveland area? I know they hit 85 mph gust at Burke Lakefront, I wonder what the highest ever recorded was.

[vpbob21]

13 hours ago, Floydbuster said:

Here in Summit County, it did not seem as bad as nearly all the surrounding areas. I actually did not lose power, surprisingly. Anyone know what the record highest winds are in the Cleveland area? I know they hit 85 mph gust at Burke Lakefront, I wonder what the highest ever recorded was.

I don't know the answer to this, but I have to think the 1/26/78 Superbomb has to be at or near the top of the list.  I know Hopkins hit 82 mph and I think there were some 100 mph reports closer to the lakeshore.

[NEOH]

Did we just have an earthquake? Huge boom and the office shook. Seemed way to loud for thundersnow.  

[LakeEffectOH]

36 minutes ago, NEOH said:

Did we just have an earthquake? Huge boom and the office shook. Seemed way to loud for thundersnow.  

Just heard at the office that it could have been a meteor.

BTW, you should be getting hammered now under that stationary snow band.

[NEOH]

5 minutes ago, LakeEffectOH said:

I didn't notice anything here in Solon.

BTW, you should be getting hammered now under that stationary snow band.

Wow. That was probably the loudest explosion I've heard. The band is just north of here... sitting  between 87 and 322.

[LakeEffectOH]

33 minutes ago, NEOH said:

Wow. That was probably the loudest explosion I've heard. The band is just north of here... sitting  between 87 and 322.

I was driving to work at the time.  Must've had the radio up too loud...

[NEOH]

6 minutes ago, LakeEffectOH said:

I was driving to work at the time.  Must've had the radio up too loud...

Sounds like it was a confirmed meteor. Wild week of weather.

[LakeEffectOH]

1 hour ago, NEOH said:

Sounds like it was a confirmed meteor. Wild week of weather.

It's been wild all of 2026!

[vpbob21]

We certainly heard (and felt it) here.  From what I'm hearing it wasn't as loud here as places further east, but it was enough to make me look up and say "What was that?"

[NEOH]

2 minutes ago, vpbob21 said:

We certainly heard (and felt it) here.  From what I'm hearing it wasn't as loud here as places further east, but it was enough to make me look up and say "What was that?"

It was definitely a unique sound and loud. Almost like multiple crashes/explosions. 

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/meteor-could-be-cause-of-loud-boom-in-northeast-ohio

"Cooke said the meteor was moving 44,000 mph"

[A-L-E-K]

jelly 

[dta1984]

Back to winter today.   Around 3" here on the deck.  Jackpot was right around 87, there looked to be 4-6" in that area.  

I missed out on the meteor, but some pretty incredible videos of it out there! 

[OHweather]

We heard (and felt) the sonic boom from the meteor at the office in Brooklyn Heights, and then dealt with a barrage of phone calls and media requests that rivals a major severe weather event. What a day. 
 

Also saw some gnarly snow squalls today (and drove on some icy roads last night and this morning) as March does its thing. 
 

I believe that 85mph gust at Burke on Friday was the strongest gust measured at the site. 

[NEOH]

15 hours ago, OHweather said:

We heard (and felt) the sonic boom from the meteor at the office in Brooklyn Heights, and then dealt with a barrage of phone calls and media requests that rivals a major severe weather event. What a day. 
 

Also saw some gnarly snow squalls today (and drove on some icy roads last night and this morning) as March does its thing. 
 

I believe that 85mph gust at Burke on Friday was the strongest gust measured at the site. 

Between the high winds last Friday, meteor and lake effect it has been a crazy week. Looks like Medina county is the place to hunt for fragments. 

NASA SUMMARY

NASA Meteoroid Environment Office finds that this was a 2m diameter object weighing around 6 metric tons - more of a small asteroid than a large meteoroid.

Signatures of falling meteorites are seen in data from three weather radars, KCLE (Cleveland), the Cleveland airport radar TLVE, and KPBZ (Pittsburgh).

The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument on the GOES East weather satellite observed the meteor.  The ground track passed north to south over western Cleveland, producing sonic booms heard across that city.