It begins. I'm wired and saw a flash and heard thunder.

Looks like a lot of the foothill stations near my place gusted in the 50s and even 60s.

Now that I know cntrl F, here are the peak wind gusts for the WV airports PDX: 55 mph HIO: 48 mph TTD: 43 mph Pearson: 41 mph (went down at 1:20a) UAO: 46 mph+ (went down at 12:50a) SLE: 43 mph (went down at 1:05a) CVO: 52 mph EUG: 49 mph Strongest PDX gust since April 7th, 2017 (56 mph) 2nd winter in a row where a 50 mph gust was out of the west.

I can also now confirm that PDX has hit 55 mph. I also didn't know about control F before 10 minutes ago. Once that got pointed out as a requirement to find the in between observations, then it was an instant find.

The wind has been pretty intense here since I got home. Lots of stuff breaking and falling outside.