By the way there's the equivalent of a Cat 3 hurricane

[malaise]

moving through the US Midwest. It's the worst in 70years - please stay safe DUers.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Wow! Yes, stay safe everyone!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Indeed there is. Here's a very cool animated map that shows it:

And when you scroll around, it shows the whole country...

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php


Please do stay safe, my dear friends...:scared:

[cutlassmama]

5. Thanks for the map. Looks like my MIL is getting it right now

[Justpat]

21. Thanks for that link.

Yikes. :scared: indeed

[htuttle]

3. Been windy as hell in South Central Wisconsin

If there was ever a day to see how far you can lean into the wind without falling over, it was today.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. 111 to 130 mph winds????????

[veganlush]

6. it's over-blown from my perspective

..they said it was gonna be the worse since the storm that sunk the edmund fitzgerald here in 1975. It moved my leaves around on my lawn a little bit.

[SoCalDem]

7. The report I saw, indicated that there would be the same sonditions for 3 days

Watch out for tomorrow:)

[FLPanhandle]

8. Barely Category 1 winds according to the news

Long way from a Cat 3.

[malaise]

12. I didn't make this up

http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/major-wind-snow-storm-timing-2_2010-10-26
<snip>
A powerful storm that is raking high winds, severe t-storms, and, yes, even wet snow in parts of the Midwest and South.

Meteorologists know this is an intense storm due to lowest central pressure of the low in Minnesota bottoming out in the neighborhood of 955-960 mb.

[GentryDixon]

9. My son IM'd me earlier today from Lexington, KY

to let me know they were under a tornado warning. He knows how I worry! :-(

[doc03]

10. The front moved through here about 2 hours ago

and IMHO it was way over hyped. They have been talking about this big storm moving in all day and
the winds were no worse than maybe 40-50 MPH and all the rain and flooding never happened.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. I see you're in Ohio...

Which part?

I have friends in Cleveland, and I'm worried...

[doc03]

17. Eastern Ohio the closest city is Wheeling WV. They cancelled

the wind advisory for Cleveland at 7pm, the radar just shows light rain and it looks like it will all pass through in a few minutes.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. Thank you!

I am very relieved to hear this...

It's tough having friends so damn far away.

:hi:

[malaise]

13. I saw homes and buildings destroyed on CNN n/t

[doc03]

19. I heard it was pretty bad in western Ohio but I think it kind of died

out by the time it got here. They claim the hills around here break up the serious stuff many times especially tornadoes.

[malaise]

24. That's great news

:hi:

[scarletwoman]

14. I'm watching the trees whipping around outside my window.

I'm in east-central Minnesota -- we're definitely NOT getting the worst of it. Here it's more like what I see when we go through the kind of big summer storms that spawn tornadoes.

On the radio they were talking about the record low pressure up north -- literally, it's setting records. They said it's the low pressure that resembles hurricane conditions, not so much the wind. Wind gusts in the southern part of the state are around 55 mph or higher. They're around 43-45 mph in my part of the state right now.

Not so extreme as a few years ago when we had straight line winds go through my area at between 60-70 mph. THAT was scary! Lots of roofs blown off, lots of trees blown down.

I expect I'll see a few down and broken trees on my drive to work tomorrow, but I doubt there'll be any structural damage. And the rain will probably turn to snow by morning. :)

sw

[malaise]

16. Thank you sister

The pressure is the issue - that is surely Cat3

[scarletwoman]

20. Occasionally I fantasize about what it would be like to live on a tropical island.

It passes. I couldn't bear to leave my beautiful miserably cold part of the world. :D

:hug:
sw

[malaise]

22. Your fantasies will end when the hurricane watches are announced

:hi:

[scarletwoman]

26. My fantasies end when I'm outside under a full moon on a winter night, when the snow sparkles like

a billion, gazillion diamonds, and the Northern Lights are playing like psychedelic organ music in the sky.

I'm a Northern girl, born and bred. :)

sw

[malaise]

30. I'm the opposite

Every year I turn down tickets to visit siblings during winter.
I can't bear the cold.

[Warpy]

15. It looks like it's weakening a little as it moves east

and toward the mountains.

A barn lost its roof here and there are a few branches down here and there, but this part of the country is used to high wind.

It's a stinker, though. Earlier today there was an unbroken line of tornado warning boxes/severe storm boxes all the way down the midwest.

It's going to usher in the first cold air of the season, too. My feet are freezing.

[Odin2005]

18. We've had gusts of over 60mph here in Fargo.

[meow mix]

25. old man winter seems angry at something. not happy with the lenghtening summers

most likely and i dont blame him

[prairierose]

27. Right now, here in the Black Hills...winds of 30 mph w/ gusts to...

51. It has been blowing like this for 2 days now and tonight and tomorrow the NWS says gusts over 60 mph. My cats are really hating the wind. It was not so cold today but we did get some rain yesterday and last night. Of course, it might have landed somewhere in the middle part of the state before it hit the ground. Not that much actually hit the ground here.

[marmar]

28. It's been kind of a bust thus far in Southeast Michigan.

Moderate winds for a while and moderate rain.

[Motown_Johnny]

29. I was out in it for a little while but we seemed to get luck here in S.E. MI

it was a nasty little storm front that moved through but it wasn't the worst I have seen by a long shot.

[applegrove]

31. It's a weather bomb.

[malaise]

32. Check this out

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11634289