If you happened to step out of the comforts of your own home yesterday – heat raring, hot toddy steaming – then you felt the whiplash of Mother Nature. For those who played it smart and barricaded themselves indoors, you surely heard the wind gusts but you luckily didn’t feel them. I did. According to the National Weather Service, peak wind speeds reached 58 mph in the Greater Boston area.

Check out this map courtesy of the NWS Boston to see just how blustery it was in Southern New England yesterday.

The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, which classifies hurricane speed winds into different categories, puts yesterday’s gusts in the tropical storm range – approximately 39 to 73 mph sustained wind gusts.

That just blew me away.

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