The National Weather Service is forecasting for the Washington DC area wind gusts of up to only 45 mph today, and 40 mph tonight. This is *significantly* less that what I was hearing yesterday....
As the dry air worked its way into the storm’s core, the winds have decreased a lot. Still, this is a very large and relatively slow moving storm with a lot of rainfall. It won’t take much wind to topple trees with the saturated ground.