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Last night's winds forecast at 10 PM
(https://kesq.b-cdn.net/2022/03/030522-winds.jpg)
That was down from earlier in the day when Palm Springs had winds up to 40 mph. San Gorgonio Pass gets the worst winds (that's why all the wind turbines are there) and yesterday Whitewater had a peak gust of 61 mph. It's not unusual for winds in the pass to exceed 60 or even 70 mph, but I don't recall any exceeding 80 mph so that's probably rare. I live near the "P" in Palm Springs which means I'm on the lee side of the +10,000' Mt San Gorgonio and only 1 in 10 wind events in the pass are also a wind event on the south side of Palm Springs. Yesterday's was one of those 1 in 10 events as winds not only funneled through the pass but through the lower mountains (5000' ridge southwest rather than 9000' ridge directly west) southwest of Palm Springs.
302 mph.
The greater Salt Lake City area especially north of SLC is known to experience extreme downslope windstorms from the Wasatch Mountains from time to time, which have produced gusts in excess of 100 mph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Davis_County_windstorm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Utah_windstorm
The Northwest's winter windstorms have brought some nice records, including 81 mph in Everett and 100 mph in Renton back in 1962. https://climate.washington.edu/stormking/SeattleBigStorms.html
Overall they just do enough to bring down weak trees to block roads and destroy power lines.
It doesn't get very windy often in Western Montana, but during a recent thunderstorm not too long ago, I think c. 2013 or might have been '14 or '15, but, Missoula recorded 75 MPH at the airport, enough to topple an old oak tree near Russell Street. Missoula's last known microburst wind recorded was back in c. 2002 that toppled my mother's mobile home in Huson.
It's actually not that uncommon, at least at my southern location within the Houston metro, to get winds over 20 mph (it's at 25 as we speak) after cold fronts in the winter and spring. The average wind speed hovers around 10 mph most of the year here, even during the summer. Breezes from the coast and afternoon popup showers provide a bit of relief during the summer. Thunderstorms and hurricanes can bring higher winds, of course (between the two of them, we probably get tropical storm force winds at least once per year). Hurricane Nicholas just last fall brought minimal hurricane force winds to my area.
Quote from: CoreySamson on March 11, 2022, 08:37:20 PM
It's actually not that uncommon, at least at my southern location within the Houston metro, to get winds over 20 mph (it's at 25 as we speak) after cold fronts in the winter and spring. The average wind speed hovers around 10 mph most of the year here, even during the summer.
Everyone in Abilene ought to be snickering at you right now.
Where I grew up, in northwestern Kansas, anything under 30 mph was called "light breezes" on the weather report. Not even worth mentioning.
I wish I had an anemometer. We've had several hurricanes with landfalling winds of 130 but I'm 30 miles from the coast so probably much lower here. I dont recall any winds doing damage nearby.
The Sierra Nevada crest routinely gets wind speeds well over 100 mph during even moderate storms. Here's the regular automated report (https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/rev/remotedata/screst.php) from the ridgeline at Palisades Tahoe (formerly "Squaw Valley", the 1960 Winter Olympics site). Of course there's nothing up there except some ski facilities which get shut down when the wind gets above certain criteria.
At lower elevations, Washoe Valley between Reno and Carson City gets some nasty crosswinds that sometimes force the closure of I-580 through there to high-profile vehicles.
Quote from: kphoger on March 11, 2022, 09:55:15 PM
Quote from: CoreySamson on March 11, 2022, 08:37:20 PM
It's actually not that uncommon, at least at my southern location within the Houston metro, to get winds over 20 mph (it's at 25 as we speak) after cold fronts in the winter and spring. The average wind speed hovers around 10 mph most of the year here, even during the summer.
Everyone in Abilene ought to be snickering at you right now.
Where I grew up, in northwestern Kansas, anything under 30 mph was called "light breezes" on the weather report. Not even worth mentioning.
30 mph in DFW will get a mention but it's not out of the ordinary. Lately it's associated with fire weather warnings, which has been as bad as I've seen it in more than a decade.
Quote from: Road Hog on March 20, 2022, 09:06:17 PM
Quote from: kphoger on March 11, 2022, 09:55:15 PM
Quote from: CoreySamson on March 11, 2022, 08:37:20 PM
It's actually not that uncommon, at least at my southern location within the Houston metro, to get winds over 20 mph (it's at 25 as we speak) after cold fronts in the winter and spring. The average wind speed hovers around 10 mph most of the year here, even during the summer.
Everyone in Abilene ought to be snickering at you right now.
Where I grew up, in northwestern Kansas, anything under 30 mph was called "light breezes" on the weather report. Not even worth mentioning.
30 mph in DFW will get a mention but it's not out of the ordinary. Lately it's associated with fire weather warnings, which has been as bad as I've seen it in more than a decade.
Sustained wind of 25 to 30 or higher, or gusts above 40, is enough to get a wind advisory from the Fort Worth NWS office.
And speaking of fire, today NWS issued fire warnings for some of the counties to the west. I don't think I've ever seen fire warnings.
This area has gotten temporary power outages from sustained winds in the mid-20s.
I remember overnight winds of ~90 mph that causes several trees to fall a few years ago.
Quote from: Road Hog on March 20, 2022, 09:06:17 PM
Quote from: kphoger on March 11, 2022, 09:55:15 PM
Quote from: CoreySamson on March 11, 2022, 08:37:20 PM
It's actually not that uncommon, at least at my southern location within the Houston metro, to get winds over 20 mph (it's at 25 as we speak) after cold fronts in the winter and spring. The average wind speed hovers around 10 mph most of the year here, even during the summer.
Everyone in Abilene ought to be snickering at you right now.
Where I grew up, in northwestern Kansas, anything under 30 mph was called "light breezes" on the weather report. Not even worth mentioning.
30 mph in DFW will get a mention but it's not out of the ordinary. Lately it's associated with fire weather warnings, which has been as bad as I've seen it in more than a decade.
Currently in Norman the wind speeds are 28 MPH gusting to 37. This doesn't seem particularly out of the ordinary for a spring day. There are some fire warnings out because of how dry it's been in the west (and indeed there are some wildfires up in the northwest part of the state) but 37 mph isn't otherwise as calamitous as the OP seems to think.
Missoula is anticipating 40 to 60 MPH sustained gusts upon an encroaching cold front plummeting temperatures 30 degrees below the normal for April. However, some localized areas may see up to 70 MPH, locally high snowfall up to around 2 feet or so in the higher elevations. Last I checked the local NWS observation for Missoula, it read 9 MPH, but at times it can kick up to 30 in Hellgate Canyon and funnel outward. Most of Western Montana and Northern Idaho are under High Wind Warnings until around Tuesday.
I jist followed high winds -- up to 75 mph gusts -- on a trip across Nebraska. Had to keep to my schedule. It was frustrating that warm weather moved in the day after we left a location...day after day...
165 mph about 14 years ago
we had some 75 mph winds a few days ago. i saw something fly by my window, pretty sure it was the cat.
Quote from: gonealookin on March 20, 2022, 07:14:54 PM
The Sierra Nevada crest routinely gets wind speeds well over 100 mph during even moderate storms. Here's the regular automated report (https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/rev/remotedata/screst.php) from the ridgeline at Palisades Tahoe (formerly "Squaw Valley", the 1960 Winter Olympics site). Of course there's nothing up there except some ski facilities which get shut down when the wind gets above certain criteria.
At lower elevations, Washoe Valley between Reno and Carson City gets some nasty crosswinds that sometimes force the closure of I-580 through there to high-profile vehicles.
Following up, we had a spring storm blow through yesterday. Here's a report from the National Weather Service in Reno. Nobody lives at the places where the gusts got over 80 mph, but the ones in the 70s are in neighborhoods and from NDOT sensors on highways.
(https://i.imgur.com/8k4kv5l.jpg)
96 mph gust during our Bomb Cyclone in 2019.
I also climbed Pikes Peak on this day:
(https://i.postimg.cc/RFS0BW0j/Pikes.png)
That was brutal.
143 MPH back on Mar. 30.
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/apr/07/governor-tours-springdale-tornado-damage/ (https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/apr/07/governor-tours-springdale-tornado-damage/)
I remember back in the late 80s Harold Taft showed a video of the wind speed display at the KXAS (DFW Channel 5) studio the day after some severe storms. They had a weather station outside with dials inside showing the readings, and they would get photographs or videos of extreme readings to show on the air. During the storm they had a camera pointed at the wind speed display with videotape running, and the next day Harold played the video of the display jumping up to 110 mph.
On average, probably 20-30 mph. We see a lot of high wind events between Fall and Spring. In fact the past 6 months has probably been the windiest in recent memory, at least since 2016. The frequency of wind advisories/high wind warnings was noticeable this season.
To add on for what I said,
Hurricane Florence reported a 56mph wind speed and 100MPH gust!
Thats the strongest we had since Hurricane Fran in 1996.
Wind speeds up to 30mph due to tstorms.
Just great. :rolleyes:
EDITED due to inaccurate response. -BM
Quote from: snowc on May 01, 2022, 08:24:13 PM
Wind speeds up to 20mph due to tstorms.
Just great. :rolleyes:
Is that high for your area? 20mph sounds like nothing to me.
Quote from: kphoger on May 02, 2022, 10:19:48 AM
Quote from: snowc on May 01, 2022, 08:24:13 PM
Wind speeds up to 20mph due to tstorms.
Just great. :rolleyes:
Is that high for your area? 20mph sounds like nothing to me.
Its the highest we've got in a thunderstorm. Last time we had one it cut off our power!
(https://i.imgur.com/SeCXoNo.png)
Quote from: snowc on May 02, 2022, 11:20:35 AM
Quote from: kphoger on May 02, 2022, 10:19:48 AM
Quote from: snowc on May 01, 2022, 08:24:13 PM
Wind speeds up to 20mph due to tstorms.
Just great. :rolleyes:
Is that high for your area? 20mph sounds like nothing to me.
Its the highest we've got in a thunderstorm. Last time we had one it cut off our power!
You sure about that? I checked the weather for Fayetteville Regional Airport last month, and wind speeds were at least 20 mph on one-third of all days that month. I also checked the weather for the day of a random thunderstorm warning last year that I found on Google, and winds were 30 mph.
26-APR-2022 – 29 mph
18-APR-2022 – 21 mph
17-APR-2022 – 20 mph
14-APR-2022 – 20 mph
12-APR-2022 – 20 mph
10-APR-2022 – 22 mph
09-APR-2022 – 20 mph
07-APR-2022 – 24 mph
05-APR-2022 – 20 mph
01-APR-2022 – 22 mph
08-SEP-2021 – 30 mph
Quote from: kphoger on May 02, 2022, 11:51:47 AM
Quote from: snowc on May 02, 2022, 11:20:35 AM
Quote from: kphoger on May 02, 2022, 10:19:48 AM
Quote from: snowc on May 01, 2022, 08:24:13 PM
Wind speeds up to 20mph due to tstorms.
Just great. :rolleyes:
Is that high for your area? 20mph sounds like nothing to me.
Its the highest we've got in a thunderstorm. Last time we had one it cut off our power!
You sure about that? I checked the weather for Fayetteville Regional Airport last month, and wind speeds were at least 20 mph on one-third of all days that month. I also checked the weather for the day of a random thunderstorm warning last year that I found on Google, and winds were 30 mph.
26-APR-2022 – 29 mph
18-APR-2022 – 21 mph
17-APR-2022 – 20 mph
14-APR-2022 – 20 mph
12-APR-2022 – 20 mph
10-APR-2022 – 22 mph
09-APR-2022 – 20 mph
07-APR-2022 – 24 mph
05-APR-2022 – 20 mph
01-APR-2022 – 22 mph
08-SEP-2021 – 30 mph
Modified speed. We had higher gusts.
We've had some 60 70 mph gusts today.
(https://i.imgur.com/vyKCQWr.png)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGqwsdRWUAEdkvy.jpg)
We lost power for a moment.
Winds up to 45mph due to tstorm.
Highest that it broke our flagpole! :wow:
Multiple damage to area, and our tree is down.
We are OK, however. :colorful:
Quote
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Raleigh NC
410 PM EDT Tue May 3 2022
The National Weather Service in Raleigh has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Harnett County in central North Carolina...
Central Johnston County in central North Carolina...
* Until 500 PM EDT.
* At 410 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near redacted, or 9
miles east of Lillington, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Smithfield, Dunn, Benson, Micro, Selma, redacted, Coats, Four Oaks,
Pine Level and Princeton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
Green
Quote from: snowc on May 03, 2022, 04:29:50 PM
* At 410 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near redacted, or 9 miles east of Lillington
Quote from: snowc on May 03, 2022, 04:29:50 PM
* Locations impacted include...
Smithfield, Dunn, Benson, Micro, Selma, redacted, Coats, Four Oaks,
Pine Level and Princeton.
1) you do realize anyone can go find what's 9 miles east of Lillington
2) you do realize those NWS text products are archived forever on the internet for all to see
Basically, you've succeeded in drawing attention to something that probably nobody would have paid attention to otherwise.
I have no clue why someone would be open about what county he lives in but keep the specific town a secret.
It's not like we're going to go to your town and ask around for you by screenname.
Quote from: kphoger on May 03, 2022, 06:36:36 PM
I have no clue why someone would be open about what county he lives in but keep the specific town a secret.
It's not like we're going to go to your town and ask around for you by screenname.
What's more, the two town names he hid...are different. And the first one appears unredacted in that second list.
I live near Hampden and Buckley in Aurora, CO. Northwest side of that intersection. Someone is welcome to come find me.
On topic, I'm hopefully getting a new roof soon due to wind damage (found when I had my solar consultants up on the roof).
Quote from: JayhawkCO on May 03, 2022, 07:02:43 PM
I live near Hampden and Buckley in Aurora, CO. Northwest side of that intersection. Someone is welcome to come find me.
On topic, I'm hopefully getting a new roof soon due to wind damage (found when I had my solar consultants up on the roof).
10 miles up poudre canyon. c'mon up.
Highest Deleted Thread speed in your area?
Is snowc trying to be vindictive on his way out or something?
Quote from: vdeane on May 21, 2022, 05:32:37 PM
Is snowc trying to be vindictive on his way out or something?
I don't think it's his fault. If you remember last time, his parents forced him to delete his account (which should never have happened). This might be happening again.
Quote from: 1 on May 21, 2022, 05:34:52 PM
Quote from: vdeane on May 21, 2022, 05:32:37 PM
Is snowc trying to be vindictive on his way out or something?
I don't think it's his fault. If you remember last time, his parents forced him to delete his account (which should never have happened). This might be happening again.
The dude is 20, so that's some Britney Spears-level lack of personal freedom if so.
Quote from: 1 on May 21, 2022, 05:34:52 PM
Quote from: vdeane on May 21, 2022, 05:32:37 PM
Is snowc trying to be vindictive on his way out or something?
I don't think it's his fault. If you remember last time, his parents forced him to delete his account (which should never have happened). This might be happening again.
Except he later said that it wasn't his forum account, but rather his email account or something. Plus he never went and removed content that time.
Seems as though the train finally went off the rails when the sarcastic comments about being a robot were something he took apparently seriously. The cascading effect only seemed to worsened when the logic of Raleigh having 100F plus days all the way to September was questioned. Speculative guess on my end that the questioning of snowc's rating Amazon as the "worst store ever" is also playing a part.
Quote from: 1 on May 21, 2022, 05:34:52 PM
Quote from: vdeane on May 21, 2022, 05:32:37 PM
Is snowc trying to be vindictive on his way out or something?
I don't think it's his fault. If you remember last time, his parents forced him to delete his account (which should never have happened). This might be happening again.
Users cannot delete their own accounts here. They can (repeatedly) ask us to do it, but we generally won't; having posts floating around with no user account to attach them to causes the forum software to make certain administration features inaccessible, and we have an interest in retaining access to those features should the user return in the future. We generally advise that if someone does not want to be able to use the forum anymore, they merely scramble their password and move on.
The Fort Wayne Airport had wind gusts of up to 98 mph in the single non-tornadic-hail-producing supercell RFD damage "derecho" a couple weeks back. Several traffic signals had completely blown away and I went out for the city on damage surveying.