Crazy Weather at Ocean Falls
January 29th (Wednesday) We had quite the unexpected stormy weather all day. We were awakened around 06:30 to the sound of the wind starting to howl. The gusts were clearly building in strength, and the rain was pelting down. We could tell by the feel of the boat that the wind was coming from a different direction, so we got up to look around. We went out into the cockpit and buttoned everything up as the rain was driving past our enclosure. The wind was coming up the valley from the southwest instead of out the valley from the northeast. It was the first time here that we had had strong winds from a direction other than the northeasterly outflows. Back in bed we listened to the length and intensity of the gusts continuing to build. Jason got up again to watch our wind-speed monitor, and right away he was seeing sustained gusts of 47 knots (87 km). He came back to bed, and we listened to the driving rain and the shuddering gusts that were pushing our ...