{"id":19145,"date":"2021-12-10T02:09:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T07:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=19145"},"modified":"2021-12-10T05:10:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T10:10:25","slug":"wind-advisory-in-effect-strong-thunderstorms-possible-in-saturday-cold-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/12\/wind-advisory-in-effect-strong-thunderstorms-possible-in-saturday-cold-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Advisory In Effect, Strong Thunderstorms Possible In Saturday Cold Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10189\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-10-at-5.08.27-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10189\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10189\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-10-at-5.08.27-AM-1024x566.png\" alt=\"Wind gusts expected Saturday afternoon. (Credit: NWS)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"553\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wind gusts expected Saturday afternoon. (Credit: NWS)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A major cold front will move through the Shore area Saturday, plunging the mercury 20 degrees in a span of just hours, prompting thunderstorms along the way.<\/p>\n<p>After a sunny day with calm breezes Friday, Saturday will see unseasonably high temperatures, with a high reaching 65 degrees, according to the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly. But there will be a chance of showers in the morning, with a much larger chance of rain and thunderstorms moving through after 4 p.m. A south wind will blow 15 to 25 m.p.h., with gusts as high as 45 m.p.h. Rainfall during the day will be minimal, except in the case of localized thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures will begin dropping rapidly Saturday afternoon, with the 65-degree high dropping to a 43-degree low at night. There will be a steady stream of showers and thunderstorms before 1 a.m. Saturday night into Sunday, lasting until 4 a.m. Some of the thunderstorms could be severe and produce damaging winds. There is a minimal (approximately 5 percent) chance of tornadic activity.<\/p>\n<p>A wind advisory is in effect from 1 p.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinds will abruptly shift northwest behind a cold front Saturday evening,\u201d the advisory said. \u201cGusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NWS advisory urged homeowners to secure outdoor Christmas decorations, with gusts approaching 50 m.p.h. in some locations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/12\/wind-advisory-in-effect-strong-thunderstorms-possible-in-saturday-cold-front\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major cold front will move through the Shore area Saturday, plunging the mercury 20 degrees in a span of just hours, prompting thunderstorms along the way. After a sunny day with calm breezes Friday, Saturday will see unseasonably high temperatures, with a high reaching 65 degrees, according to the National Weather Service office in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[4484,1220],"class_list":["post-19145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment","tag-featured","tag-thunderstorms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-10-at-5.08.27-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4YN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}