National Weather Highlight for 11 / 1 / 09: Maine cleans up after Halloween windstorm

November 1, 1:04 PMCoastal Carolina Weather ExaminerGannon Medwick

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Wind damaged and helped ignite a power pole in Ellsworth, ME Saturday 10 / 31.

Damaging wind gusts - some associated with thunderstorms and some not - swept across northern and eastern New England Saturday 10 / 31.  Scattered reports of downed trees came from Massachusetts and New Hampshire, but for the purposes of this National Weather Highlight, I will focus on Maine's wind woes as the storm reports were more concentrated here:

• Trees and power lines fell along Route 11 west of Houlton, Aroostook County.
• Trees came down in Monticello, Aroostook County.
• On Reservoir Street in Caribou, Aroostook County, a tree blew down.
• Signs crashed down in Madawaska, Aroostook County.
• A downburst was reported to have felled a power line in Allagash, Aroostook County.
• A tree and power lines blew down in Fort Kent, Aroostook County.
• One tree fell in Saint John, Aroostook County.
• A limb crashed onto a power line in Pembroke, Washington County.
• Damage to a power line ignited a fire in Ellsworth, Hancock County.
• A tree blew onto power lines in Atkinson, Piscataquis County.

The following are noteworthy wind gust reports by county from Sunday 10 / 31:

• AROOSTOOK COUNTY:  53mph at Fort Kent and Frenchville, 46mph at Caribou, Presque Isle and Van Buren, 40mph at Houtlon
• HANCOCK COUNTY:  46mph at Brooklin, 35mph at Ellsworth
• PENOBSCOT COUNTY:  33mph at Bangor, 31mph at Millinocket
• PISCATAQUIS COUNTY:  52mph at East Sangerville, 32mph at Greenville
• WASHINGTON COUNTY:  53mph at Cutler, 52mph at Topsfield, 37mph at Eastport

For more information on today's National Weather Highlight, visit the National Weather Service Caribou, ME home page, the National Weather Service Gray / Portland, ME home page, or the National Weather Service Boston, MA home page.