Wind Warning

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

Giving a heads up to hikers on the TN / NC border and in NC. There is a wind warning for later today and tonight in the mountains. Wind is expected to be 40 to 60 miles an hour.

[saimyoji]

Sounds like my house after taco night.

[Green Bean]

YEs it is very windy out there. I live Pennsylvania but i can imagine it is very windy down south becasue a storm just swept through the past couple of days. becareful out there!!1

[terrapin_too]

Quite windy in eastern MA also, and it's been raining hard since yesterday aftenoon. By eyeball from looking out the window, I'm guessing gusts to 30 or 35 mph. This morning's commute is going to be ugly.

[Cookerhiker]

We're having snow here in the MD mountains but it's "falling" (sailing?) horizontally because of the strong winds. So the back of my car has more snow on it than the top.

[terrapin_too]

CNN online reports that the governors of New Jersey and West Virginia have declared states of emergency in their states.

One of the nastiest spring storms in years roared over the East Coast early today, bringing umbrella-breaking wind and relentless rain that forced evacuations from New Jersey to West Virginia. The governors of both declared states of emergency, giving them extra powers to handle storm-related problems. New Jersey's Acting Gov. Richard Codey and Connecticut's Gov. M. Jodi Rell urged residents to stay home from work and off the roads.

[Cookerhiker]

I'm flying to Ireland tomorrow night from JFK so I'm crossing my fingers that the wind & rain won't wreak more havoc on the flights by then.

[terrapin_too]

From this AM's NY Times (online)

The storm — a globular nebula 800 miles across that reached from the Carolinas to New England — inundated many low-lying roads, set rainfall records, canceled flights, closed businesses and ballparks and prompted evacuations, National Guard patrols and warnings to ships at sea. By midnight, 7.46 inches had fallen in Central Park, making yesterday the second wettest day there since recordkeeping began in 1869.

[rhjanes]

winds over 140 MPH on Mt Washington today.
Interesting read on their web site about 4 to 6 inches of ice per hour....

We got this storm Friday night. Tornado's here in the Dallas Ft Worth (Haltom City, actually) area. We went Orienteering on Saturday to Tyler State Park in east Texas. There were fresh blow-downs (mud and dirt still falling off the exposed roots, as we ran, climbed by). The Haltom City HS JROTC team, only had half their members at the Orienteering meet, as the rest were patching roofs, cutting brush. Thankfully, none of the kids were hurts, but there was at least one fatality due to the storm.

[Toolshed]

Many, many roads here in NJ (I work in NJ and live in PA) are closed due to floods, (Eastern NJ is lowland), down trees, down power lines and the like. our Esteemed Ass. governor declared a SOE, which really means nothing, since roads are not leagally closed. They "ask" people not to drive.

We are on a hill in PA and the winds were the worst I have seen in a few years. Took the dogs out last night at 1:30 AM (I beleive they they were nervous, hearing the wind howling) and found I could lean forward into the gusts, so I figured wind gusts had to be at leat 45-50 MPHs.

[Cookerhiker]

Many, many roads here in NJ (I work in NJ and live in PA) are closed due to floods, (Eastern NJ is lowland), down trees, down power lines and the like. our Esteemed Ass. governor declared a SOE, which really means nothing, since roads are not leagally closed. They "ask" people not to drive.

We are on a hill in PA and the winds were the worst I have seen in a few years. Took the dogs out last night at 1:30 AM (I beleive they they were nervous, hearing the wind howling) and found I could lean forward into the gusts, so I figured wind gusts had to be at leat 45-50 MPHs.

Toolshed or anyone else in the area, what shape is I-78 in?

[terrapin_too]

FWIW, the Boston Marathon is happening as we speak... :rolleyes:

[Toolshed]

I-78 is in great condition today (except for the awful highway bumps due to aged concrete :) ) No other problems. I drove it today from Lehigh Valley to Bridgwater NJ.

[Cookerhiker]

I-78 is in great condition today (except for the awful highway bumps due to aged concrete :) ) No other problems. I drove it today from Lehigh Valley to Bridgwater NJ.

Thanks - I'm driving that same stretch tomorrow late morning/early afternoon.

[eventidecu]

Wind blowing hard down toward Charlotte from about constant 25 to 50 mph all night/day. Temps on Mt. Mitchell NC yesterday went from 70.0 at noon to 18.5 at about 6:30pm per state park weather sight. WOW!

[Uncle Silly]

Yep. Snow yesterday in the NC High Country (Ashe/Watauga counties), lots of wind last night and today. It's still gusting pretty good here tho the clouds are all gone.

[D'Artagnan]

I lost a couple shingles along the back side of my house yesterday. Oh well, could be worse!

[galaleemc]

Cloud9 lost power about 8:30 Sunday and was back on at 4:30. Guests watched it snowing horizontal before dark. I watched a bucket truck go up to the pole to work on the lines...I would not want to be up in that thing in the wind that was going through here that 40 hour time period. We lost significant parts of three trees and one very tall pine was up rooted...away from the homes here. 18 hikers here - better than up on the mountains.

[Blissful]

Yeah whoever said hike in April for good weather - HA. Snow and wind, wind and snow, wind knocking you over. But we knew it would come back to bite us when we had 70s in the Smokies in March. Such is life on the trail in the high country.