Tag: wind
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Back again
The Thomas Dann was back on the North River on Friday morning, returning from Rhode Island with the deck barge CBC Savannah on the wire and heading for the Port of Coeymans. Thomas has been making periodic trips upriver, picking up equipment for wind turbines, perhaps manufactured by GE Vernova in Syracuse, and bringing it…
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Back for more?
Thomas Dann came up the North River Friday afternoon, returning from Rhode Island with the wide deck barge CBC Savannah. Thomas was heading for Albany, perhaps to load the barge with more wind turbine parts similar to what this pair brought down river earlier this week.
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Wind against tide
A 20-knot southwest wind was blowing straight up the North River on Thursday morning, creating some chop as it ran against the ebb tide. Cape Canaveral / DBL 101 left anchorage and headed for the Upper Bay.
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Wednesday January 10–storm warning
Deteriorating weather conditions brought heavy traffic to the North River as ATBs and tugs with tanker barges sought out anchorage space and some specialized offshore vessels also came in to get out of the chop. Storm warning was in effect from 18:00 with gusts up to 60 knots and seas of 16 to 21 feet…
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Winter gales
Temperatures plunged below freezing just before sunrise on Friday and fell below 20 F by sundown. Gale warnings were in effect for the harbor as the NOAA weather station at Robbins Reef lighthouse in the Upper Bay clocked gusts above 50 knots. With Upper Bay anchorages unappealing, a crowd of tanker barges took up residence…
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The West Wind
Skies cleared Thursday but gale warnings remained in effect in the Harbor as winds out of the west gusted to over 40 MPH. Some tug/barge combinations rode out the chop on the Upper Bay, but the North River anchorages filled up with ATBs returning from New England ports, with four boats anchored off Manhattan, another…
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Coastal flooding and plunging temperatures
High tide brought serious coastal flooding to New York Harbor Friday morning, with reports indicating neighborhoods on Jamaica Bay seeing their worst inundations since Sandy. Impact on the Hudson was much less dramatic, though high tide was still visibly above normal and some areas of Riverside Park South and Hudson River Park saw water where…
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