Heat wave ended with a bang on wendsday

Jim Cantore · #1 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:38 pm

At about 6:45 I went out to take wind measurements for the approching storm

The temp was still around 95 but the humidity had gone down a bit

the winds were about 10mph

I'm out for a few minutes then I see trees start blowing and the wind explodes to 35 and it went from there it broke 40 then 50 then it peaked at 56.2mph

Trees where down in a bunch of places branches were everywhere. And Most amusing was watching a guys backyard umbrella fly across the road

Not as amusing as when hurricane floyd blew one across a meadow and stuck it in a tree and watching the guy looking for it the next day (shoulda brought it inside eh?)

Oh well I dont care how but at least that blasted heat wave is over (for now) it broke 100 for the first time in 4 years on wendsday.

Swimdude · #2 Postby **Swimdude** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:38 pm

I hate to say this, but that sounds pretty exciting.

Jim Cantore · #3 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:10 pm

Oh it was

Jim Cantore · #4 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:42 am

Unlike the July 1st storm there was no wall cloud

I'll post a picture of that wall cloud if your intrested

#5 Postby **angelwing** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:03 am

Floyd, I'm curious, I wasn't in work last Wednesday so I don't know how bad it was there (though my office was wet the next day). How far are you from McGuire AFB?
It was nasty in Phila, the far NE had a lot of power outages as well as a lot of places in Bensalem on Street Road...the lights even flickered at the hospital a few times and they were running around telling everyone visiting in ICU not to worry they have backup generators.

Mary

Jim Cantore · #6 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:25 am

I'm around 30 minutes from there

I had 56mph gust and a few more over 45-50

I heard around Mguire there was 50mph winds and some tree damage and spratic power outages

Jim Cantore · #7 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:27 am

I'll try to dig up more info

Jim Cantore · #8 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:31 am

anyway in the mean time heres a site for Jersey winter storms that i dug up over the winter

http://www.njfreeways.com/weather/Weather.html

Jim Cantore · #9 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:33 am

I cant find anything now but what I posted is what I know at the time considering the storm I picked off was the same one that hit MAFB

#10 Postby **angelwing** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:20 pm

Thank you!

Jim Cantore · #11 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:26 pm

No problem

Heat wave ended with a bang on wendsday

Heat wave ended with a bang on wendsday

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