The Wife asked if I ever heard how high the winds were on Saturday. I hadn’t.
How can I find that information for my location?
Go to weather.gov, click on your area on the map or search for it so the page is for your local weather office. Then on the left under Climate click Local. Select 1 Daily climate report, 2 fine tune the location, 3 select archived data and pick the day, 4 Go.
There is no ‘archive’ link.
EDIT: No ‘Archive’, but I saw 3-Day History on the middle-right. Going there, I could select Show 7 Days.
Winds during the storm were 29 mph, with a peak gust of 53 mph and other gusts in the 30 to 40 mph range.
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My “posting from phone while also texting” instructions were probably bad, this is what I meant after you click “local” under climate.
http://w2.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=lox
Sounds like you got it anyway.
Sites like that are often hard to explain how to navigate. Thanks for the link.
I was not at home when the power went out, but the time of the peak gust is right around (or at) the time I remember seeing on PSE’s website where they state the time of the outage. The reporting station is Bellingham International Airport, which is about 20 miles from here.
Maybe you could invest in your own weather station.
I’d love to have my own weather station, complete with a Stevenson screen. Dad was a Flight Service Specialist in the FAA, and I used to walk out with him to watch him take the readings. I’m not sure my property is suited to one though, and Wifey would Not Be Amused.
I would look around for a nearby weather enthusiast like this guy in my neighborhood.
http://www.shorelineweather.com
He has a links page that might help. Perhaps a search at WeatherUnderground - http://www.wunderground.com .
Also, local schools often have weather sites.
Unfortunately, a lot of weather stations aren’t very accurate and the good ones are expensive. Davis and Rainwise are two popular “professional” stations and they’re over $500 minimum. I had a $150 Ambient Weather station and it’s readings were pretty off, but I just got it to play with. I wanted a Davis but I don’t have an ideal place to put one so it would have been a waste of money. Cheaper ones are still fun to have and you can put it on wunderground but the NWS won’t be begging you for weather data from a $79.99 station.
That’s why I’d want to do it old-school. Anyway, the Stevenson shields look cool. But it would be nice to have something automated.
Not that it’s going to happen either way.