The Gales of November Come Early 11/2/2020

 

  Gales weren't exactly predicted, as the forecast was for winds of only 25-35 mph with occasional gusts over 40. Gales are technically winds in the 39-46 mph range.   What I've found out since moving to the lakefront, is that I can usually get winds about 25 mph higher than what is predicted.  Yesterday even exceeded that, when I had a sustained wind of 68.7 mph and a gust of 82.5 mph.   

  I went through the data on my weather station monitor and found between 3 AM and 8 PM, the wind reached 59.9 mph or higher 121 times. Eight of those times were between 70 and 77 mph and occurred between 7:19 AM and 1:45 PM.   But even those were topped by the category-1 hurricane force gust of 82.5 mph that happened at 11:09 AM.  

  I was a couple of hundred miles from home all day but monitored the conditions by computer and an app on my phone.  It would have been stressful to be here to hear the screaming wind as the roof shingles held on for dear life. I did lose a little patch of shingles but I didn't lose a single tree or even a large limb.