Storm ‘bombing out’ over Great Lakes---MI WI IN OH NY PA IL Ontario-CA and more

Heads up for the Midwest, and perhaps Michigan the most.
Sunday looks to be a big wind event.
May have gusts in excess of 60MPH which is a big deal around here.

A storm system is going to rapidly intensify this weekend as the storm center crosses over Wisconsin and Michigan. This intensification is enough to consider the storm “bombing out.”

A storm that bombs out creates very strong wind gusts. The rapidly deepening low pressure center is what causes winds to increase as a storm system passes by. It’s a situation very similar to when a hurricane intensifies and then the winds increase.

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Blizzard, flash freeze, high winds, OH MY!!!!
www.mlive.com...

A stable low-level profile on Saturday in the warm advective regime will prevent much in the way of downward momentum transport and southeast winds veering to southwest by early Sunday will be limited to gusts of less than 30 mph. As the low passes to the north and cold advection encourages deeper mixing, the better chance for widespread stronger winds arrives mid Sunday morning. Winds 50 to 60 knots within the lowest 5 to 6 kft will be tapped into via this mixing. This will result in a prolonged period of sustained westerly surface winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts of 45 to 50 mph likely.
A brief interval of gusts to 60 mph is not out of the question, and have issued a high wind watch for Sunday morning into late Sunday night. Winds of this magnitude and duration will have the capability to cause tree damage and scattered to possibly widespread power outages across the region.

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Watchbox Map of the US
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ELSEWHERE IN THIS STORM

www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov...
Valid 00Z Sat Feb 23 2019 - 00Z Mon Feb 25 2019

...HIGH Risk of excessive rainfall through Saturday morning across the
Lower Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys...

...Thunderstorms will continue into Saturday for the Lower Mississippi and
Tennessee Valleys, with severe weather likely...

...Heavy snow ongoing in the Four Corners region will spread into the
Northern/Central Plains and Upper Midwest, with freezing rain and high
winds likely as well..

UPDATE
www.abovetopsecret.com...

UPDATE 6:45pm
wind watch now a wind warning
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Worst is yet to come......UPDATE at 7:00 EST
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Yeah, I spent most of this week watching that one very carefully because early on some solutions put it in my neighborhood tomorrow.

Thankfully, it's missing us this time.

a reply to: ketsuko

Winds are bad enough.....at least this area won't get the blizzard as well.

I really hate severe weather.
A LOT!!!!!!!

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

We had one blizzard this year. I didn't need another one. Honestly, it feels like we've been under at least a Winter Weather Advisory every other day for the past two weeks. My child has spent more time in tae kwon do than he has in school thanks to bad weather cancellation.

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

We are supposed to get high winds in northern indiana too.
Kinda depressing we aren't getting snow with it.

a reply to: ketsuko

I know!
And we've had four or so ice events.....more than usual.
And the cold!
Not snow so much.....at least not here.....but further north!!!!

Windy.com

It has some great wind forecast on there. Looks like saturday midnite there is some kind of weird vortex forming in iowa and then moving to the area just north. I am not very knowledgeable on weather but that looks just like the eye of the recent hurricanes i have viewed on that site.

Stay safe and indoors warm everyone.

We were having a nice, mild winter here in north Idaho...

Then, February happened. 3 feet of snow, and cold enough to freeze good vodka...

We may need some "dragonglass", before too long... one of our chickens died and we burned the body, just to be sure.

You folks in the upper-midwest, should have probably started that practice weeks ago...

Southwest MI here all kinds of warnings starting tomorrow Sat night. Our town all power is underground been good so far but I'm right on the lake. On the road for a funeral will be home in the afternoon for a play by play

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

Those jerks. We got a wonderful 8 inches of snow on Tuesday night and they promised us another 6-8 inches today through Sunday. It looks like it is going to completely miss us now.

teases ... all of them ... grrrrr


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a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

I am running out of places to put the snow. Had to shovel off the roof even. You cant see if a car is coming at an intersection so you have to inch out little by little. Should be an interesting weekend here. I know we are going to set a record for snow for one month after this one.
Good times are being had by all !!

Grand Rapids area here (same as JinMi) I can't speak for his end of the metro, but my end seems pretty unperturbed. People checking trees and roofs, and trimming where needed, but you'd swear it was spring manicuring or something, not high wind prepping.

We were in Menard's earlier today doing some price-comparing (ended up buying elsewhere) and the employees were surprised there wasn't another run on generators yet.

originally posted by: UncleTomahawk
Windy.com

It has some great wind forecast on there. Looks like saturday midnite there is some kind of weird vortex forming in iowa and then moving to the area just north. I am not very knowledgeable on weather but that looks just like the eye of the recent hurricanes i have viewed on that site.

Stay safe and indoors warm everyone.

That'll be the low pressure system and where the blizzard conditions will be around -- to the northwest side. That low will move over us during the day with the blizzard moving through Kansas and up into Twiowa.

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

It looks to be a windy day coming up. More the Upper part of the Lower Peninsula but it could be pretty bad as trees were probably weakened by the ice storm we just had.

originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: DontTreadOnMe


Kinda depressing we aren't getting snow with it.

What the h@ll is wrong with you? You want moresnow?

Northern Indiana shuts down their freeways when they get too much snow. We never shut our freeways down here. Just play bumper cars.

Duplicate. Never post at the bottom of the hour.

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

I’m on the north shore of Lake Superior.
We got the word for the snow storm hitting tomorrow night with 80-100km winds.
Calling for 1 ft of snow, plus blowing drifts.

We already have 3-4 ft of the crap!
Not looking forward to this one.

I'm going to get this storm head on and I have to work remote (like every day) on Sunday. I really hope my Internet doesn't go out.

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

The buzz words the news stations come up with is laughable.

We know it's going to be scrappy out, it's winter!

a reply to: Nyiah

Just another weekend in the mitt.

Spring must be close because everyone was talking about baseball and the ballpark was having an event.