Wind

French Toast Alert Level: 1 Slice / Low. Explanation.

What bombogenesis looks like from above

By adamg - 10/27/21 - 4:26 pm

This was the storm overhead at 3:10 p.m. as seen from the GOES-16 satellite.

Don't stand under a tree today

By adamg - 10/27/21 - 8:57 am

What are the odds? Tree falls, misses cars in Southie.

Carina Flynn, who captured the lucky miss above, reports she's never seen so many fallen trees in South Boston.

There wasn't much joy on Joy Street on Beacon Hill this morning: Read more.

Hundreds of thousands lose power

By adamg - 10/27/21 - 8:50 am

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.

As winds howl, some trees just can't take it

By adamg - 10/26/21 - 10:59 pm

Somebody filed a 311 report about this downed limb at Dungarven and Kenton roads in Jamaica Plain around 10 p.m. Read more.

Hold onto your hat

By adamg - 10/25/21 - 9:07 am

Map showing expected high wind gusts across southern New England Tuesday and Wednesday

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.

Wind rips wall right off Seaport building

By adamg - 3/2/21 - 5:51 pm

Photo by BFD.

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 wind blows and trees fall, scaffolding from a building under construction on Mission Hill falls down

By adamg - 3/1/21 - 11:03 pm

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.

Might want to make sure your giant inflatable Santas and snow globes are tied down

By adamg - 12/23/20 - 11:44 pm

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.

A mighty wind

By adamg - 10/7/20 - 6:11 pm

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.

It was a bit windy this morning

By adamg - 9/30/20 - 9:42 am

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.

Tempest tossed on Lynn Shore Drive

By adamg - 4/13/20 - 9:14 pm

See it larger.

Greg Cook braved the elements today to snap photos of the waves along Lynn Shore Drive.

Across Boston, trees continue inexorable plunges to the ground, except when they're stopped by houses

By adamg - 4/13/20 - 5:45 pm

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.

Mother Nature helps one Cambridge homeowner with a nagging issue

By adamg - 4/13/20 - 4:55 pm

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.

Parkways closed in West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain on account of trees

By adamg - 4/13/20 - 4:23 pm

Large tree down on Centre Street in Jamaica Plai

Around 3:30 p.m., Steve Porcella snapped the large and formerly stately tree that shut VFW Parkway inbound between Corey and Hancock Village when it came down.

Further up the road, near the Castle in JP, a large tree limb came crashing down, as Sarah Freeman spotted: Read more.

Utility pole surrenders early to gravity in Jamaica Plain

By adamg - 4/13/20 - 12:22 pm

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.

If you have any hatches, now would be a good time to batten them down

By adamg - 4/12/20 - 6:31 pm

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.