Strong Winds Cause Wind Damage

Convective line moved through Albany at 11:45am. The strongest winds were in the 4 hours preceding this line. Numerous trees and power lines are down areawide. An Old Forge, NY spotter (in the Western Adirondack Mountains) reports "hundreds" of trees down resulting from both non-tstm winds and also tstm winds with the line that went through. Buffalo, NY gusted to 65mph earlier. Albany airport had a peak gust to 45mph so far this morning. These are typical wind speeds area-wide although there were likely gusts up to 60-70 mph in some higher elevations. Anyway, the line lost some of its punch as it approached the City of Albany. I expect it to maintain itself/strengthen as it moves east into New England becuase it is more unstable out that way. CT, NJ and NYC may get into the action also since the front is still west of there currently. The line may intensify and bring some of the strong winds down to the ground there as well.