Insane winds today

Been blowing over 30mph all day here in Albuquerque. Been going 35-45mph the past few hours with sustained gusts to 65mph. It's causing some serious visibility issues. Can't even see the mountains due to the dust. Driving in it is like sandblasting your vehicle. Supposed to get worse before dark.
We have a wedding to go to tonight. Was supposed to be outdoors but had to scramble at last minute to find an indoor venue event center. Should be fun. One of the worst windstorm I have been in.

Man that must suck

It’s been a windy spring here for sure, but that sounds terrible

Wind has been just stupid lately.

watch out for the chupacabra, I hear they like windstorms.

Windiest month in DFW since May 1996. Know you know

I grew up here and do not recall anything like this.

Damm global warming...

I just call it April this year.

My sister and her family are in Lubbock to visit Tech for my nephew. They said it's crazy out there. Be safe.

it's really screwing up my fishing

Im headed to Los Lunas (South of ALBQ) from Waco. Stopped for the night near Sweetwater. Winds are crazy right now.

You know it’s Trumps fault, right?

Supposed to play 18 tomorrow! May back out.

Windy since March.

It will stop about the time we get to 98°.

My daughter hit a HR out of the park in Wall today against Ballinger in 40 MPH wind so I was a wind fan for 6 seconds or so. Not so much before or after that.

watch your car/truck windows,..wet them thoroughly before you turn on the wipers,..
sand is terrible on windows,...it can scratch easily...

When you get a big High Pressure system bumping into a big Low pressure system, this is expected.Two opposite wind directions meeting each other. Probably 40 mph here tomorrow. Watch out high profile trucks....

Get out the back brace! Gonna be a fun day on Ray bob tomorrow.

We have family in Las Lunas. We are staying up neartge Fo9thills area. Wind is still howling. Be safe.

the wind is your friend

...if you're a wind turbine owner or schooner Capt.

i hope it blows all of y'all's azzes off the lake since I can't go.......

The last time I was in Lubbock was to visit my Mom. The Boss and I left early one morning to return home to Dallas with a sandstorm blowing. First time I ever made a our scheduled pit stop in Seymour with almost a full tank of gas.

Prayers for safety!

I drove the jeep today. it has the aerodynamics of a milk cow.

Exactly

Spring has always had high winds. I can remember talking about it at a bass club meeting in the 70's.

Nothing new here nor will it ever change.

The only problem with the "It’s always this windy in the spring" story is that some of us have been fishing and outdoors a lot for decades and know that two months of almost daily 30+ mph winds, with several days over 40, is not normal.

I'm 61 and this is the windiest stretch I remember.

That makes sense. They are saying this is the windiest April since 1963.

Up here in Amarillo I saw Dorothy and Toto go winging by at Mach Jesus last night!

For this reason, this is not my favorite time of the year for fishing on the coast. When the winds do lay down, it will be summer time heat and time to hit the surf.

I drove through a sandstorm in NM on the way to CA years ago and had to pull over 3 times to clean the sand out of the air filter on my 64 Chevy truck to keep it running. I stopped and helped several people along the HWY do the same. I had to replace the windshield on that truck it was sandblasted so bad.

The wind is finally starting to abate here in W. Tx Christoval. Bring on the rain Lord.

Guides on Fork in 1992 (I think) said that it blew 24/7 without ever getting under 20 mph for 45 straight days.

Hard on the fishing guide bidness.

Ain't too good for the fishing tackle bidness either!!

same age
same thoughts

i have worked outside my entire career
we have never stopped work because of wind
until this year

Well i made it to Los Lunas, NM. I can attest that todays winds were just as bad as yesterday. The red skys driving thru W Texas reminded me the times it would rain mud in Wichita Falls from the dirt blown in from W Texas

I think it was June of 1995 that is was windy as all get out overnight for a couple of weeks or so. I was delivering newspapers to stores and racks back then. We had to put our papers together before we could deliver them and I had to figure out where the wind was blowing from...then find a car wash bay to park in to protect the papers from the wind. After several nights, I learned how to drive my stick shift Civic and slip the daily papers together at the same time.

This stretch seems worse. I wake up in the middle of the night and it's howling...go to work and have to deal with the wind...come home it's still blowing strong. Craziness.

It's wind. Every year there's wind. Sometimes with rain but often not.

I just pray we get the rain tomorrow that they keep talking about. It's dry around here

Still does, we get just enough rain to make it look like the kids were shooting brown paintballs at your cars.

We made it back to Runaway Bay today. Wind blew the whole drive home.

Not like this though.

I drove by Monticello after my last appointment… decided I didn’t feel like fighting Mother Nature today. Tomorrow I’ll be fishing somewhere no matter what the wind does.

Prayers are always greatly appreciated sir.

Fishing was pretty good today, mainlake was like the Bering Sea.

Wind has blown 60mph for 2 days up here I h the panhandle. Gonna lay down tomorrow to a nice gentle breeze of 20-30 mph.