Wind!

[Faster horses]

The wind started howling last night. It tried to rain but the wind won. It's supposed to blow harder this afternoon,
up to 50 mph!!! So how about the wind where you are, asking anyone reading this?
Even at church the person who makes the announcements thanked God for the wind...and then everyone
laughed.

 

[Puzzled]

Am still getting bouts of wind and rain here. Flood waters are starting to recede. Don't think the wind has been as high as you are getting.
Funny as a little kid growing up on the coast I thought the wind was only a problem here, later I learned in blows inland, too.

Right now it is sunny and warm, seems pretty calm out today.
Nice not seeing the livestock soaking wet with their butts to the wind. Some days the horse almost tries to back across the pasture rather than face the storm.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

We got a very welcome inch of rain over night. Surprisingly not windy

 

[webfoot]

It was pretty windy here yesterday but nice a calm today. I never heard what it did yesterday but I would guess 30 mph.

 

[Nicky]

Been a very windy spring here too

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I spoke to soon yesterday. After an nice soaking rai it cleared off and the wind blew hard until evening, Nice out today,

 

[Older Whiskey]

Branch breaking windy here early last week, but last few days calm and sunny. Unseasonably cold in the morning, but warm by afternoon with a very gentle breeze.

We shall see what late April and early May bring. Generally we have very high gust (70-80 MPH) storms moving thru. They don't last but sure can cause a lot of damage. If out and about on the tree lined back roads, I have my small chain saw with me. A few years ago it took me 2 hours to go one mile after I made my escape from a sheltered area. To clear a path, I had to cut the uprooted trees in smaller pieces that when I was young.

 

[Puzzled]

Those higher gusts have a tendency to rearrange the vegetation. Then in the spring when the maples, willows, alders etc. leaf out and there is heavy rain and higher winds, the weight of the leaves seem to make the trees more vulnerable to damage.