Wow - 60-70 mph. And Snow!
Here in SE Tennessee, it was very windy, but I don’t think I saw anything over 50 - hard to judge exactly because my home weather station is good, but partially blocked by forest behind me and a house to the south of the sensing station, so it does not give me the full wind speed. I was seeing 30 mph gusts, but based on official data from the weather service at the airport, what’s really blowing is about 1.5 to 2X that gust.
Anyway, no snow, but over an inch of rain fell here Tuesday overnight, and the temperatures dropped a good amount. 65 was the high Tuesday, and 35 was the low this morning. It’s Ok - we needed the rain.
Well, I hope you did not have any power failures in your neighborhood. Rain is a good thing coming into spring.
Yesterday I did see an after the fact story for this area. Weather service did clock a 70+ gust about 2 counties north and a number of 60+ in my county and several others on either side, so I am relying on their figures. I did spend some time looking at the snow blowing under the nearby street lamps. It was not the fluffy type and there was less than 2”. Snow is not unusual, the sustained and high gusts with blowing snow was a bit different. Based on our clocks we lost power for about 3 hours but slept through it. We did have about 24” of snow this year which is not bad for the winter wheat in Eastern KS. (KS/MO Border Zone 6B )