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This is from the Boston NWS office. During this event a Comair jetliner was struck by lightning.

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
SPOTTER REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
623 PM EST SAT DEC 10 2005

AN 8 HOUR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND NOREASTER BECAME A SEVERE SHORT TERM
WINTER STORM FOR RHODE ISLAND AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS FRIDAY
AFTERNOON DECEMBER 9TH 2005.

THE EXTREME RAPID INTENSIFICATION OF LOW PRESSURE AS IT MOVED
THROUGH BUZZARDS AND CAPE COD BAYS BETWEEN 1 PM AND 3 PM...THEN OUT
TO SEA...CREATED A SHORT TERM NEAR BLIZZARD SCENE DURING MID
AFTERNOON UNLIKE NO OTHER IN RECENT MEMORY WITH DAMAGING WIND...
WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AND ABOUT AN HOUR OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR MANY
WITHIN AND JUST EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 95 CORRIDOR....

...THUNDER WITH NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS OCCURRED DURING A 2 HOUR
PERIOD OF FURY THAT TRANSLATED EASTWARD THROUGH THE INTERSTATE 95
CORRIDOR BETWEEN 130 PM AND 4 PM...WHILE HURRICANE FORCE WIND
GUSTS...BRIEF NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AND SHARPLY FALLING
TEMPERATURES STRUCK THE CAPE AND ISLANDS...MOSTLY BETWEEN 245 PM AND
445 PM.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/productview.php?pil=PNSBOX&max=51

AIRPORT WEATHER WARNING FOR BOSTON/S LOGAN AIRPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
200 PM EST FRI DEC 9 2005

...LOGAN AIRPORT WEATHER WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW AND FOR ABRUPT
WIND SHIFT...

...AIRPORT WEATHER WARNING FOR LIGHTNING THROUGH 3 PM...
ALSO...THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF THUNDER SNOW ACROSS THE
WESTERN SUBURBS OF BOSTON. SOME LIGHTNING IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 3 PM
AT LOGAN AIRPORT.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/productview.php?pil=AWWBOS&version=2&max=51

Edited by danielw (Sun Dec 11 2005 08:40 PM)

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