Windy day

[centauress]

I don't know why it's windy today; it's clear and there's no storm fronts. It's done this twice this year. We don't often get much wind, which is actually kinda unhealthy for the trees - they need a good dusting

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[tugrik]

The news has been talking about it for the last 24 hours. There's a big pressure differential squeezing by the Bay Area today, putting us right in the wind channel in between. Some spots up higher in the santa cruz mountains are supposed to hit a sustained 70mph or so.

Here on the 'valley floor it's just nicely breezy and the wind's blown all the fog and extra moisture out, making it an amazingly nice day. I just spent an hour and a half walking around downtown SJ for lunch and it was awesome. But where my house is I'm in a wind-gully coming down off of Mt. Umunhum. We get 50-70mph sustained winds sometimes during these events and have the missing fences and house-parts to prove it. As a result I'm kind of worried as to what I'll find when I get home.

It's supposed to peak this evening and then taper off overnight, then be clear/sunny for a week after.

[centauress]

It's not very sustained, but if you look at the weather stations the little wind-direction symbols are all over the place, flipping around like crazy. I'm glad we're getting some dry air, even if I don't know why it's dry.

We're getting mostly from the west, but it does seem like weird weather to me, but I'm from further north where nearly all weather prediction can be done by looking at the the satellite picture, and all wind is accompanied by clouds somewhere along it.

I've seen your fence ^-^

[coffeedaiv]

So, you had a hailstorm without any actual, as it were, hail?

[centauress]

The wind was from a huge air movement from one region to another, so it skipped the valleys and open areas like a small storm cell might. But as it hit the mountains it swirled down and created havok as the air tried to squeeze through the passes and reflected off of hills. That made it last a long time (32 hours, basically) and be really vicious.

[coffeedaiv]

So, as noted, no actual Hail (in that there were not bits of frozen water) in your hail storm?
I am pretty sure that is called a Wind Storm. Which is also cool, and dangerous, et al.
Love.
-Daiv

[centauress]

No storm cell. Plenty of falling objects, though!