Highest wind gusts in Mass., Feb. 23, 2026

One city hit 83 mph on Monday morning.

A pedestrian braces in heavy wind and snow on State Avenue close to the Outdated State Home through the storm Monday. Andrew Burke-Stevenson for The Boston Globe

By Peter Chianca

February 23, 2026 | 2:16 PM

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As anybody who’s been taking note of Boston’s excited meteorologists can let you know, a blizzard isn’t nearly snow — it’s additionally about wind. Particularly, wind speeds of 35 mph for at the least three hours. And at many commentary stations in Massachusetts, we’ve met that baseline, after which some.

A have a look at the wind gusts reported by the Nationwide Climate Service reveals that many areas had been nicely on their technique to blizzard standing this morning, hitting gusts within the 60 and 70 mph vary, with one — Wellfleet, on Cape Cod — reaching 83 mph at 7:06 a.m. That’s within the vary of a Class 1 hurricane.

See the best reported wind gusts within the chart under:

COUNTY	LOCATION	SPEED (mph)	TIME	DATE	SOURCE/OBSERVER
Barnstable	Wellfleet	83	0706 AM	23-Feb	WXFLOW
Barnstable	Chatham AP	77	0604 AM	23-Feb	ASOS
Barnstable	West Falmouth	72	1007 AM	23-Feb	WXFLOW
Barnstable	Hatch Seaside	71	0912 AM	23-Feb	WXFLOW
Barnstable	Chatham	71	0813 AM	23-Feb	WXFLOW
Barnstable	Hyannis AP	71	0904 AM	23-Feb	ASOS
Barnstable	West Dennis	70	0909 AM	23-Feb	WXFLOW
Barnstable	Chapin	70	0816 AM	23-Feb	WXFLOW
Barnstable	Kalmus	69	0904 AM	23-Feb	WXFLOW
Barnstable	Otis AFB	68	1056 AM	23-Feb	AWOS
Bristol	Horseneck Seaside – The Knubble	67	0859 AM	23-Feb	WXFLOW
Bristol	New Bedford AP	65	0748 AM	23-Feb	ASOS
Bristol	1 NE Somerset	65	0923 AM	23-Feb
Dukes	Marthas Winery AP	64	0645 AM	23-Feb	ASOS
Dukes	Winery Station	63	0936 AM	23-Feb	WXFLOW
Essex	Kids’s Island, Marblehead Harbor	63	1037 AM	23-Feb	WXFLOW
Nantucket	Nantucket AP	62	0906 AM	23-Feb	ASOS
Nantucket	Nantucket Harbor	62	0952 AM	23-Feb	WXFLOW
Norfolk	Milton (Blue Hill)	61	0656 AM	23-Feb	CWOP
Norfolk	Norwood AP	60	0555 AM	23-Feb	ASOS
Plymouth	Hull YC	60	0908 AM	23-Feb	WXFLOW
Plymouth	Duxbury Bay	59	0720 AM	23-Feb	WXFLOW
Plymouth	Plymouth AP	58	0409 AM	23-Feb	ASOS
Suffolk	Logan AP	58	0623 AM	23-Feb	ASOS
Worcester	Worcester AP	58	0412 AM	23-Feb	ASOS

Peter Chianca

Common Task Editor

Peter Chianca, Boston.com’s basic task editor since 2019, is a longtime information editor, columnist, and music author within the Better Boston space.