High wind event today

[Joel Wright]

All across the midwest. High wind warnings are flying for much of the midwest. Winds may exceed 60mph across the area this afternoon. Even at this late hour winds are gusting to 55mph in South Dakota. I will be surprised if I don't see a 70mph report later today. This really looks like a nasty high wind event. Every parameter is in place.

 

[Dan Cook]

I've got my camera ready. 8)

 

[Andy Wehrle]

GRB has wind advisories posted for all of its CWA with gale warnings for the waters of Lake Michigan and the Bay.

WEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT.

Perfectly calm as of right now with a light dusting of snow on the ground.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...

Apparently things are already starting to pick up out to the west, though:

WIND GUSTS OF 43 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED AT LA CROSSE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT...WHILE PRAIRIE DU CHIEN AIRPORT REPORTED 46
MPH.

 

[Robert Dewey]

To bad I'm not up north anymore, wave heights on Lake Superior are supposed to be up around 23-25FT, with Storm Warnings in effect. Our cabin is also supposed to get +18 inches of snow, combined with those winds :shock:

 

[Dan Cook]

It sounds like my building's haunted. Everytime there's a huge gust of wind it sounds like "OOOOOOOO".

 

[Andy Wehrle]

The storm has hit so to speak here in Green Bay with sleet mixed with snow blowing horizontally on winds of 20-25 MPH.

Holy crap get a load of this surface map! If only this was April or May and this cyclone had a warm, moist Gulf air mass to work with!

<Removed auto-updating TWC surface map image. Relevant cyclone has left the country>

 

[Joel Wright]

So far the winds haven't materialized as intense as I had thought. Most gusts are staying at or below 50mph. The extensive cloudiness across the most favorable high wind region is likely keeping things a little more reasonable.

Apparently my forecast for a 70mph gust somewhere is laughable lol. Oh well, I'm not a meteorologist..

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

I was just about to say the same thing man. I was hoping for a cool event here in eastern NE but it has not happened. Still a good kite flying day though.

 

[Robert Dewey]

The highest I have seen on the METAR data was 52KNTS about 6 hours ago in southern MN...

 

[Craig Maire II]

High wind event!

Iv'e witnessed winds gusting to around 60 mph here in Cedarfalls Iowa and there have been wind gusts to near 65 mph in Benton and Poweshiek Counties, Iowa.

 

[mikegeukes]

Lake Michigan today near sunset at 5:00 PM EST Winds 45-50 mph, Waves 8-10 feet.
Forecast calls for waves building to 14-18 feet.
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A few spots on the lens, I notice, getting some spray from the lake and also some precip was falling.

Mike

 

[Scott Olson]

From my perspective here in Brookings SD. With some incredible gusts that have caused some damage locally. The howling and creaking of my roof have been constant. Our WFO issued a high wind warning and the criteria was meet. Highest recorded gust by observing station was 48 here in Brookings but more likely was about 52. In some other areas it guested as high as 57.

 

[Jeff Lawson]

I had to drive from Omaha to Des Moines and back again today. In an SUV.

It was not fun.

 

[Alex Lamers]

Very windy here in the western 'burbs of Milwaukee in Waukesha County (Wisconsin). Sustained winds still on the order of 20-25 MPH with a peak gust today of 54.1 MPH. Luckily none of our holiday decorations blew away!

Based on obs around the area...one of the higher gusts of the day. I'm glad its past leaf-season and I don't have to rake anything as is per usual in fall after high wind events.

 

[Amos Magliocco]

Somebody must have pulled the string on that low because sfc wind here in Bloomington, Indiana just cranked from a peaceful 20 knots to about 30 sustained with gusts to 40. With all the trees around it really makes a howl. Cool stuff.