Wind
What are the odds? Tree falls, misses cars in Southie.
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Barometric-pressure map at 5 a.m. from NWS.
Some 407,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts have lost power as of 6:30 a.m., mainly in the southeastern part of the state, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, which adds: Read more.
Somebody filed a 311 report about this downed limb at Dungarven and Kenton roads in Jamaica Plain around 10 p.m. Read more.
Maximum expected wind gusts Tuesday and Wednesday, via NWS.
Update: We've been updated to a high-wind warning.
The National Weather Service has issued a high-wind watch for eastern Massachusetts from Tuesday morning through Wednesday afternoon. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 329 Northern Ave. after the wind ripped a 50x50 piece of wall off the side of the vacant building around 3:15 p.m. ISD and a structural engineer will now determine if the whole building has to come down.
Earlier:
Wind blows down Mission Hill scaffolding.
As of 11 p.m., the state is reporting more than 25,000 customers from Western Mass. to Boston have had power knocked out. Read more.
The National Weather Service advises you do that because we're expected to get a mighty wind on Christmas Day, not to mention potentially record setting amounts of rain (Harvey Leonard's looking at 2 1/2 inches in Boston), which is probably not what we want to see on top of all the snow.
That was some storm that just came through. Josh Bitker snapped Huron Avenue in Cambridge, where a tree came down, taking trackless-trolley lines with it as it crashed onto a car parked in what turned out to be the wrong place. Read more.
Ed Grzyb reports this tree came down on Brown Avenue in Roslindale this morning, taking out the sidewalk and utility lines, but adds nobody was hurt.
State Police report falling trees shut the ramp from Cambridge Street to Storrow Drive and VFW Parkway near the Home Depot in West Roxbury.
Greg Cook braved the elements today to snap photos of the waves along Lynn Shore Drive.
Gary the roving UHub photographer spotted a tree that was foiled in its descent to the ground by a house on Dent Street in West Roxbury this afternoon.
Over in Dorchester, Kate Kelly reports a large tree on the grounds of the Neighborhood House Charter School managed to fall just right - missing both her house and anything important on the school grounds: Read more.
Josh Bittker had been trying to figure out what to do with an old swingset in his backyard. He reports he no longer has to figure that out: Read more.
Matthew Christensen reports a power pole, and presumably the power it carried, came down sometime before noon today on Myrtle Street, just behind the Centre Street post office in Jamaica Plain.
The National Weather Service reports we could get wind gusts of up to 65 m.p.h. tomorrow, and National Grid is warning of potential power outages as Mother Nature unleashes her fury and snaps trees like matchsticks as a powerful storm churns across the region and, oh, God, we're babbling again, aren't we? On the bright side, you probably won't have to worry about joggers getting too close to you in local parks.
Michele Scarlata looked out his window at the evidence of just how windy it is this afternoon.
Roving UHub photographer Jim Kang is beginning to wonder if the trees in Seven Hills Park in Davis Square are particularly fragile.
Cracked, fallen tree in Chestnut Hill. Photo by MBTA.
The MBTA reports it's restored service on the Green Line to and from Riverside, following a windswept tree cracking and falling along the line in Chestnut Hill during the storm. Rider can still expect some delays, but no longer have to get on a shuttle bus for part of their ride.
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