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lol see you next year happy new year you deserve a nice break :)  It is very windy it will not feel good going to work tomorrow morning.BRRRR.

I spent the last 5 days in Joplin with this wind!  It has followed me home!  And of course we picked up the yard from Saturdays storm today when we got home, lots of little limbs.  Guess I will be doing it again tomorrow.  Have a great New Year everyone, and stay safe!

Why can't wind be forcasted better like precip and temps?

My North and West windows are creaking and rattling something awful!!!

I have HAD IT this year with the wind gusts- every few days we are getting blasted!!!!!

Hey lets have Jeremy answer some Q's on AWP now :)

Happy New Year Gary- thanks for another great year giving us the most accurate forecasts! Dea

Going to look at some low profile ranch houses tomorrow. WITHOUT big windows! :) Gonna leave this house that is out in the middle of the prairie where the wind is constantly beating it up.

38.2 mph gust about 10 minutes ago here in south Lee's Summit.

Is there a map that I can access that shows wind speeds and direction that is updated frequently?

For some reason NWS doesn't have La Cygne in the wind advisory. Well, I can attest that it is VERY windy.

We have a sustained wind of 30-32 MPH with gusts 38-40 MPH so far. Geesh, I hope we don't get the 50 MPH gusts that Gary just mentioned.

Hey Farmgirl I am with you on the wind on the open praire.  We built this house on top of a hill for the view 4 years ago.  The windbreaks aren't quite grown yet and it gives us a heck of a time.  We are at an elevation of 1210 a good 75 feet higher than the other hills around here.  So it all comes crashing on us.  The one thing we did right is build it as low profile as possible with only 2 windows and 1 door on the north side and no windows on the west end.  We put a 30 year roof on, but these winds are g

It is very windy outside and Gary you and your family Breezy and Stormy have a good year in 2009, you are always correct about the weather enjoy the rest of the year off and just relax for once, can't wait to see Breezy and or Stormy back on the set with you.

Good chilly morning to the Weather Team!!! It is not too bad out this morning-pretty typical morning for december 31st!! Very clean and fresh out there this morning!!

I wanted to wish everybody-Gary, Jeremy, Brett, Jeff and all the entire KSHB blogging community a very Happy New Year!! As Spock would say-live long and prosper!!!

Have a great one and welcome back Jeremy!! Enjoy the days off Gary!!

Bill in Lawrence

I'm with you Farmgirl, this wind is the worst and no one is really addressing it, why so windy this season?  I have never liked wind reminds me of growing up in north central kansas and no trees, no wind breaks of any kind.  I read a book once that talked about the prairie winds that drove people mad in the early 1800s....I believe it!  Right now the winds have calmed so I'm going to head out for a walk.  I'll walk in rain, snow, sleet but I will not walk when the winds are above 25mph which has happened alot this winter.  
Happy New Year Everyone!  Here's hoping for a dry, calm and warm new year!!!!
--deb,dave, hoss, popeye and windy

Happy new year everyone! I'm glad the winds have died down this morning, it will make it much easier to motivate myself to take the dog out for a walk.

we did seem to have alot of wind and methinks more to come! my wife is reminded of when she lived in NE, and it reminds me of numerous trips to Pueblo, CO - always seemed windy there. i can really do without it (and the snow, the ice, the frigid temps...)

happy new year everyone! and thanks gary, jeff, jeremy and brett for all the hard work you've put in this year!

I wish you guys could be a little more specific when you forcast wind.  The word windy seems so mild compared to what it is doing outside.  Maybe you could say, "Wind that will blow the flag off the flagpole, hair off your head, feathers off a bird" or "wind that will gently caress a baby".  

Is it my imagination that the wind is blowing harder lately (this year)?

     Stormlover, its very hard to pluck a bird with anything but fingers. People out a recently, very recently dead chicken and a wind tunnel and need winds of 100-150 MPH to get feathers to start coming off! But is WAS very windy outside! ;-)

BTW, if it wasn't for people we'd be in an iceage right now:

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/081217_warming.htm

Been busy at work and looked at an older blog Gary says a 12 incher in the viewing area on 4 Feb. . . last year on 4-5 Fed we had 13 in good ole' St Joe! Still 19 degrees.

“We’re at a very fa­vor­a­ble state right now for in­creased glacia­tion,” said Kutz­bach. “Na­ture is fa­vor­ing it at this time in or­bital cy­cles.”

The article doesn't say we'd be in an ice age now, it says we are at a favorable period for glaciation based on our current state in the cyclical orbit.  What it doesn't say, but should be considered, is what happens when we are no longer in the part of the cycle that favors glaciation?  One might conclude that during this unfavorable glaciation period glaciers and polar ice will melt far quicker than the current record rates.  The reality is, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases trap heat and help to raise the earth's atmospheric temperature.  You can argue about the end results all you want, but that fact still remains.

Let's not get into the GW fight.... don't believe in it... period.

Well said andrew.lol let's not fight about it.  But be sure to throw your opinion out there.
I don't believe in global warming either, as I believe that is also a cycle.  That said, I do think the things that humans do have an adverse affect climatology.
Matt