Steven Oracle says:
As a regular weatherunderground.com used out here in Palm Springs CA, I can confirm viewing many ground based Atlantic Coast weather station readouts on Sunday August 28. The wind speeds of high quality reporting stations were in the 10-35mph range. None I checked had 60-80mph readings. The wind direction indicators followed the swirling cloud cover. We have no explanation of the discrepancy between ground based stations and the NOAA reports from TV News. To use weatherunderground, go to the site. Enter any US city and state. When the city page comes up, scroll to the bottom for a list ofweather stations. You can see local variations in wind speed direction etc. Or click on wundermap for a google maps overlay showing stations as icons having wind direction and wind speed in flag format 3 stripes = 30mph wind speed.
