A broad surface high pressure over the Central Atlantic resulted in breezy conditions on January 21st with gusts up to 35 mph reported over coastal areas. Brief, strong winds not associated with a thunderstorm were reported to affect Santa Elena neighborhood in Guayanilla that afternoon.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS SJU wrote it up.
A broad surface high pressure over the Central Atlantic resulted in breezy conditions on January 21st with gusts up to 35 mph reported over coastal areas. Brief, strong winds not associated with a thunderstorm were reported to affect Santa Elena neighborhood in Guayanilla that afternoon. Residential solar panels sustained damage, and several trash cans were displaced. A resident reported loud wind noise at the time of the event.
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A report of brief, strong winds not associated with a thunderstorm was received. |Residential solar panels sustained damage, and several trash cans were displaced in the Santa Elena neighborhood in Guayanilla. A resident reported loud wind noise at the time of the event.
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