Turn on weather channel is that a Hurricane at Great Lakes

[lovuian]

Turn on the Weather channel and look at the swirling motion over the Great Lakes with wind gusts over 50 mph

thats quite something to see for Weather Channel buffs

hang on up there thats NASTY looking

:crazy:

[Avalux]

1. Here's a radar link:

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ECIR4.html

It's definitely got a hurricane look to it. Weird.

[lovuian]

2. It actually wind bands is not that freaky stuff!!!

Thanks!!!

[Berserker]

22. Thats just the typical

Minnesota fishing opener storm. They said it will be raining sideways and in the 30s on Saturday just great timing once again.
But up here we like wind for fishing walleyes.

[Missy M]

3. We have high winds here today in Western NY but so far....

doesn't seem to be any damage. Cross my fingers there will be no power outages.

[lovuian]

6. I know the wind has gotten to some up there and they are

without electricity

Amazing stuff it makes you wonder in this age of Global warming we are seeing strange weather patterns
in areas that were never eperiencing it

[Missy M]

9. Yes we are seeing strange weather patterns....

here in the Buffalo area we had such a mild winter and some real early warm weather. I never had to drive to work or home from work in bad weather or bad roads the whole winter.

[Atlas Mugged]

10. I'm in Wyoming County

And it's so windy I can't hear myself think when I'm outside.

All the new growth from the evergreens is littering the ground. And all the crabapple blooms, which just opened, are being blown off the trees.

[Missy M]

13. I haven't been outside since lunch time so maybe it's getting..

worse here in Buffalo. We are usually pretty windy anyway because of Lake Erie but today it was bad. Any major damage yet or power outages?

[Atlas Mugged]

24. The power has been blipping on and off

So much for all the digital clocks.

It's finally calmed down and it's raining. Actually, it was kind of nice picking asparagus in the Spring rain. Not any really serious damage, but new growth on the trees is pretty badly hit.

[Lochloosa]

4. Winds over 50 MPH....we call that a breeze in Florida

[lovuian]

7. LOL!!! I know but those guys aren't use to that up there

But good point...
But you recognize the wind bands formation

[Lochloosa]

8. I do. But the thing to look for is the pressure. Start dropping below

29.0 and hold on....

[Bjornsdotter]

15. Actually we are

...accustomed to high winds up here. We call them tornados. ;-)

Seriously, we get winds like this a lot, it's not really unusual.

The winds have been blowing hard here (Illinois/Wisconsin border) for about 12 hours.

Cheers

[rodeodance]

5. we are having snow in N. Michican and WI.

[lovuian]

11. Here it is

[lovuian]

12. My friend in Pennsylvania says they are getting rain

and very high winds for 5 days....And she says because of its swirling it goes out to the ocean and get
more moisture and comesback atcha...

[MadHound]

14. It's a strong low pressure system, surrounded by bands of wind and rain

Slow moving one too, it's been affecting our weather all week here in Mid Mo. But hey, we needed the rain, it has been dry, dry here in the Midwest.

Hold onto you hats folks, the winds a-blowin'.

[catmandu57]

17. That was my answer

A strong low pressure system and a slow mover at that.

[madrchsod]

16. ya i`m waiting for the 50 mile winds

they are predicting. brought my plants in cause the low tonight will be in the high 30`s...springtime in the midwest

[Poiuyt]

26. We've had strong rain and a 43mph gust here in WI

Not hurricane by any means, but it's still not fun to be outside

[Lisa]

18. "weather bomb"?

That's the nickname I've heard for very strong low-pressure systems in extra-tropical areas (outside of the area normally hit by hurricanes). At least, on the West Coast.

[SoCalDem]

19. There are often gale force winds off Lake Michigan

Usually they come accompanied by LOTS of snow that would usually dump on where WE lived (Michigan City, In)..30 miles away, no snow :(

[Lisa]

27. I grew up in the Great Lakes too -- just at the edge of the snow belt ...

Depending on the wind direction, some areas around town could get amazing amounts of snow, even without drifting. I remember taking my driving test in February, and I couldn't be tested on 3-point turns because the snowbanks were 6 feet high on either side of the road, which had shrunk to barely 1 car wide. And forget parallel parking! (They gave me my license anyway.)

[Jacobin]

20. In the old days, we used to call it a "Nor'easter"

[lovuian]

28. Ya thats right a Nor Easter

thats what my friend called it in Penn...
Could be some flooding with it...

[FlaGranny]

21. Wow! That storm has a perfectly formed

outflow band on the NW quadrant, just like a hurricane.

[Bridget Burke]

23. The system is pulling cool air down from Canada....

Giving Houston a few days of fine weather. We're expecting highs below 80.

[Arkansas Granny]

25. For some really great radar, go to the NOAA home page and

type in a zip code or city and state. You can really play around with it.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

[Nickster]

29. Doesn't really seem that bad on the ground here. A bit gusty.

Just checked the weather channel and they say the wind advisory has been removed, still supposed to expect winds up to 40mph. Very steady rain and wind, but nothing to get worried about for me.