Talk about wind!

[Chris]

Here in NE Wyoming we've got 60+ MPH winds.

Down in Casper and Laramie they've clocked it at 85 MPH!

Another small town in Wyoming had a 144 MPH wind gust! I'm sitting here listening to it as I type. It's absolutely roaring outside.

 

[rasband]

We have a lot of it down in CO today too, enough where they were talking about targeted blackouts to avoid starting any fires... Ironically they're also trying to force us into electric everything down here

 

[Chris]

We have a lot of it down in CO today too, enough where they were talking about targeted blackouts to avoid starting any fires... Ironically they're also trying to force us into electric everything down here

Yep, rolling brown-outs are starting to become more-and-more common. One of the best home upgrades I've done thus far is the Generac generator.

Wind is normal in Wyoming but this is really something else tonight!

 

[InOmaha]

We're supposed to be getting that soon. The weatherman kept talking about "breezy" conditions with wind advisaries and warnings.

Expecting 60-70 mph here. Definitely not good weather for driving a lifted Jeep. I did that last year going to South Dakota. I thought my hood was going to come off.

 

[Chris]

We're supposed to be getting that soon. The weatherman kept talking about "breezy" conditions with wind advisaries and warnings.

Expecting 60-70 mph here. Definitely not good weather for driving a lifted Jeep. I did that last year going to South Dakota. I thought my hood was going to come off.

It’s scary in a lifted Jeep. Maybe even scarier in a semi-truck. There’s so many semis flipped over on the highway from the wind. The wind even lifted a second of highway out of the ground!

 

[Apparition]

Tomorrow at my house. Early afternoon.

 

[InOmaha]

We have lost every tree on our property since moving here. Seven so far. Two of them two years ago, one when the neighbor's fell on our side this year. All from wind.

I replaced one with an oak and trim the rest up to reduce wind loads. I need to find another oak. By the time they grow, I'll be gone.

Between wind and fires there's a reason no trees existed here other than oak near the rivers.

Trees fall to the southeast here most of the time due to storm patterns, so you place trees accordingly unless you want one on your house.

 

[speeding_infraction]

Looks like the cascade range in Washington State is predicted to get 100+ mph winds....

 

[voodooridr]

100 mph gusts in Moscow, we only saw 90mph. It was an interesting drive in to work this morning

 

[Squatch]

Looks like the cascade range in Washington State is predicted to get 100+ mph winds....

From around our state...

• 112 mph near the Alpental ski resort in the Cascades.
• 82 mph at Snoqualmie Pass.
• 71 mph at Whidbey Island NAS and Paradise (Mount Rainier).
• 69 mph at New Dungeness Lighthouse in Sequim.
• 51 mph at Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) International Airport.

We saw wind gusts of around 60-65 mph where I'm at. In the 30 years I've lived in this house, I've only lost power maybe a half-dozen times. Last night was not one of them. I do have three "solar generators" (power stations) that I've purchased through the past few years for camping. I keep them charged up, just in case, as my wife and I both sleep with CPAP machines that we need to keep running. Between the flooding, the wind, and the record warm temperatures, it's been one helluva December in the PNW.

 

[StG58]

Having an excellent time on the Oregon coast.

2 plus inches of rain, 25 - 30 mph winds out of the SW - building to 40 mph. Gusts to 60 plus. Maybe over a 100 on the headlands.

Fun times.

(The local rivers are predicted to go 2 feet over flood stage at high tide tomorrow. )

 

[InOmaha]

This reminds me to get a couple extra chainsaw chains. And a sharpener.

 

[lBasket]

I lost a whole branch at my house last night. Probably 1" in diameter. I did drive through some crazy sandstorm type things though

 

[tworley]

We hit 93 mph at the office (with power down at 3pm until 8am this morning), and 97mph near the house. We're buried far enough in suburbia though that the wind at our house wasn't too bad.

 

[InOmaha]

It must have dropped off before it got here. 35-45 mph winds now. That's not uncommon here. Winds were 30-35 mph a week or so ago.

 

[StG58]

Having an excellent time on the Oregon coast.

2 plus inches of rain, 25 - 30 mph winds out of the SW - building to 40 mph. Gusts to 60 plus. Maybe over a 100 on the headlands.

Fun times.

(The local rivers are predicted to go 2 feet over flood stage at high tide tomorrow. )

I'm laughing my ass off here...

Amazon and UPS drivers are still happily making deliveries. The DEI USPS folks are no where in sight.

The dairy farmers are herding the cows up to higher ground...it takes a bit because the bossies don't like being pushed much.

NOAA blew it. We've had several gusts of 60 mph and over now.

(Cows are still more aerodynamic than TJ's)

 

[speeding_infraction]

Speaking of ups

 

[voodooridr]

I'm laughing my ass off here...

Amazon and UPS drivers are still happily making deliveries. The DEI USPS folks are no where in sight.

The dairy farmers are herding the cows up to higher ground...it takes a bit because the bossies don't like being pushed much.

NOAA blew it. We've had several gusts of 60 mph and over now.

(Cows are still more aerodynamic than TJ's)

 

[Chris]

Woke me up in the middle of the night how loud is was howling. I could have sworn it was going to blow the windows out of the house or rip the roof up. I woke up this morning and almost everything was in tact minus a shingle or two that blew off and a few other things I'd left outside. Praise God, it could have been much worse.

 

[MikekiM]

I live on the water on the Great South Bay, on the south of Long Island. Our winds don't rival what @Chris is describing, but it's constant. So much so that as drive into our community all of the trees mature trees have a pronounced and easily visible, eerie lean to the north east due to the unending win out of the south west.
It took two years after moving in that I found a spot on the property where my gas grill would blow out or over...