March Nor' Easter
Hello again,
Well another strong storm system battered the Maine coast again this past weekend. Here is a brief synopsis of that storm data courtesy of the System Wide Monitoring Program.
All data from 3/13 at 11pm to 3/15 at 3pm was collected on the SWMP Meteorological Station located behind the Coastal Ecology Center.
We had 6.7 inches of rain fall between late Saturday night (13th) into mid afternoon on Monday the 15th. The bulk of the rain (4.7 inches) fell on Sunday the 14th.
We had a max wind gust of 50mph here at the farm. Our average wind speed was 12mph but we had regular gusts between 20-40 mph.
Shaping up to be a wet and windy spring if this keeps up!
Comments
Is the Wells Reserve SWMP available on this site?
We're not feeding weather data on this site yet. Near real-time data for Wells is available at the national clearinghouse for the reserve system. There's a link in the right column of our Monitoring Program page under Research and Monitoring. At some point, we will look into serving that data directly from this site.
This spring, we are planning to replace a deteriorated underground cable between the weather station and the Coastal Ecology Center. With that direct connection, we hope to provide real-time (not 1-hour delayed) weather information here.
I heard that this past Nor' Easter caused extensive widespread damage because of the saturating rains...and in the next couple of days we're supposed to get more than 5" of rain again. It seems that the past couple of years have been remarkably wet. I've seen several giant trees topple, roots and all, this spring.
