ARES, SKYWARN Volunteers Stand Down in Wake of Massive East Coast Winter Storm

 

“Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES) teams and SKYWARN weather observers along the US Eastern Seaboard went on alert Monday, January 26, as a winter storm began working its way into the Northeast. The storm, which brought blizzard conditions to some areas, shut down transportation and kept residents at home in several states. Eastern Massachusetts and the City of Boston may have been hardest hit, with record or near-record snowfall amounts and storm surge flooding in some coastal communities. ARES units on Cape Cod deployed to staff multiple shelters and the Multi-Agency Coordination Center, which serves Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket counties. A shelter was opened on Nantucket Island, after the entire island lost electrical power as well as most telecommunication services. Amateur Radio volunteers relayed this information to the National Weather Service (NWS) Taunton Office, home to WX1BOX, where operations kicked into high gear on Monday evening. Hurricane-force wind gusts were recorded on Nantucket Island and on the western edge of Martha’s Vineyard.”

Read Full Article:  ARRL.org

 

Warning: file_get_contents(https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?url=https%3A%2F%2Fqrznow.com%2Fares-skywarn-volunteers-stand-wake-massive-east-coast-winter-storm%2F): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found in /home/qrznow/public_html/wp-content/themes/goodnews5/framework/functions/posts_share.php on line 151