Well hello, the power finally came back on at 9:15pm here at CASI HQ,
after being knocked off at approx. 6:30pm, purportedly due to wind.
The highest wind gust I recorded today was the 31mph I mentioned earlier
at 11:18am. Of course that doesn't count when the power was out, but
does count 7:00-9:15pm when I had the WMR-918 station running on battery
power, it recorded a max of 26mph.
The High Wind Warning was cancelled at about 4pm, saying that winds
would only be 15-20mph possibly gusting to 40mph, and immediately
afterwards the Altoona airport reported a 27mph sustained wind and gust
to 44mph. Then interestingly enough the power outage happened (and I
heard 2nd hand stories of other outages in the area from truckers on the
CB at 7pm).
Even *more* interesting is that this power outage appeared to eminate
from the SAME area where I recorded the transformer explosion on
videotape during the last windstorm in late 1999. Must be a weak line.
I will investigate the area this weekend.
Pressure fell to 29.20" this afternoon and is rising again now.
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Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org
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