Tornado Alley (PROG)

[DesertDrifter]

The weather service is talking some wind tonight, in the east this would be hurricane winds on the ridgetops... It got breezy yesterday, too, my neighbors tarp blew off his woodpile and it draped over the electric fence of the pasture holding his saddle horse, the mare stepped over it and ran with the wind... when he found it, it had joined up with a band of wild horses about 5 miles east of here in nevada, and wouldn't come to a bucket of oats being rattled, in fact the herd stallion was a bit indignant and led her off to points unknown. We got .63 of rain, which is about 10% of our annual rainfall.

* Winds: south to southwest winds 20 to 35 mph with gusts up to
55 mph.

* Sierra ridge gusts up to 140 mph.

* Wave heights on lake tahoe: 2 to 4 feet today... then becoming 3
to 6 feet by Sunday morning.