Posted on 01/22/2022 9:51:56 AM PST by thecodont
Powerful northerly to northeasterly offshore winds whipped the San Francisco Bay Area overnight.
The strongest gusts were recorded in Sonoma County where wind speeds topped 90 mph. The National Weather Service reported a 96 mph gust at an anemometer in the Healdsburg Hills and a 93 mph gust on Pine Flat Road. Both stations are to the east of Geyser Peak where the Geyser Fire broke out. The blaze ignited early Saturday and grew to 5 acres before it was put out, Cal Fire said. No structures or power lines were damaged in the fire.
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In the East Bay, a 71 mph wind was measured on Mount Diablo and a 58 mph gust at the Oakland International Airport. A 54 mph wind knocked Mount Umunhum in the South Bay.
Winds started to calm Saturday morning and will continue to through the day.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Some of my neighbors had substantial trees topple overnight. No property (home) damage but some people are on the phone this morning to their auto insurance claims departments and local tree services.
Some of that wood will be good seasoned firewood or lumber, though.
Don’t know of any trees falling on houses or people getting hurt.
That will blow the sugar right out of the coffee.
Did it clean all the crap off the streets?
The article has its geography confused.
“Powerful northerly to northeasterly offshore winds whipped the San Francisco Bay Area overnight.”
“The strongest gusts were recorded in Sonoma County where wind speeds topped 90 mph. The National Weather Service reported a 96 mph gust at an anemometer in the Healdsburg Hills and a 93 mph gust on Pine Flat Road.”
Healdsburg is a minimum of 70 miles north of S.F. and NOT considered part of the “S.F. Bay” area. It is in Sonoma County and that is not even the closest county to the north of S.F. which would be Marin County.
147 MPH is the Colorado record not counting mountain top speeds. My neighbor had 137 MPN about the time of the fires in Boulder. 110 MPH pushed the Marshall fire though 600 acres and over 1,000 homes.
Don’t tell the Sonoma County people they don’t live in the Bay Area.
I have friends who live in Marin County, but north of the city of Marin, and even they do not consider themselves “in” the S.F. Bar area, but decidedly out of the S.F. Bay area.
Just like in southern California where some folks who live out in the Inland Empire do commute into Los Angeles county for work, they do not consider where they live as part of “Los Angeles”. Places people commute to does not always define where it is they think their residence is a part of.
They don’t. They live north of the bay area in “the wine country”.
Um, it was probably windier on Mt. Hummina Hummina.
This is a stupid argument. I lived in SF/Marin for most of my life. The people in Sonoma are at the very North end of SF Bay. Just ask someone who lives in Sonoma County instead.
Sonoma used to be a nice rural area till discovered.
Zactly....
I live here as well and, like everyone else, know what the Bay Area is or even Greater Bay Area is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area
Until you get past Healdsburg, you are in the Bay Area
Until you get past Vacaville, you are in the Bay Area
Until you get past Gilroy/Hollister, you are in the Bay Area
Until you get past Tracy, you are in the Bay Area
As far as I know, the Mount Washington record still stands.
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231 MPH
https://www.mountwashington.org/about-us/history/world-record-wind.aspx
Wow, I thought that was the highest. Read on...
The Mount Washington record was toppled in 1996 when an
unmanned instrument station in Barrow Island, Australia
recorded a new record of 253 miles per hour during Tropical
Cyclone Olivia. Though the Observatory record fell, it’s a
very human story, and it still stands as the highest surface
wind speed ever observed by man.
What you say is true. I’m an ex-resident of Northern Sonoma County.
That city needs a biblical flood to wipe it off the map 🤪
Wind gusts in excess of 200 MPH have been measured on mountain tops in Colorado. The 147 MPH in Colorado was a constant speed not a gust in southern Boulder In the area where the fire was and top speed for the fire was 110 MPH. It seems that there were some high winds in Alaska also. California does not impress me.
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