Beryl Wrapup: A Quiet, Lame Storm

There have been no reports of high winds, waves, or damage from Tropical Storm Beryl. She was a weak storm and the worst part stayed far offshore. Wind readings from both official and amateur stations were not impressive; Nantucket's airport gusted to 44 mph, which dwarfed amateur readings; offshore, a buoy gusted to 47 mph. Even the rain stayed offshore (see Doppler-estimated precipitation map below, right).

Our people were even on location in Cape Cod and, although we did our best and were in a good location, we didn't see a lot of action.

Satellite images at sunrise showed the storm moving towards Nova Scotia:

The most severe report came from the Associated Press:

The NWS confirmed to Boston.com:

That article also had a couple more gems:

Data was hard to come by because every NOAA coastal station between Long Island and Nantucket was out of service during the storm (shown in red below).

The offshore buoys were operating, though, (shown in white) and graphs from those that took direct hits are shown below.