"Check out bouy 42040.
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42040"
I have been watching it all night and tho it is an hour behind, it is showing only 40 knot winds and 30' waves - i've been in worse.
it is to the east but that is where the counterclockwise front should be most severe.
BURL1
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=burl1
60/78kts 7pm cdt