84 MPH Straight-line Wind (10 Aug 2020)

A good mechanical test for the 80/40 meter fan dipole antenna 🤓 ... WFLD meteorologist Mike Caplan reports that straight line winds of 84 mph were recorded in Plainfield.]

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Exactly 1 year later (yesterday) Milwaukee got hit HARD. I watched a tree fall as i was going to get into my car... right back in the house i went

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84 mph wind gust reported 2 miles north of Plainfield, IL

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We got lucky in my part of lockport

[@tvold9204]

84 mph sounds about like what the peak gust was here.
Very, very intense stuff!

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Wauuu!