One word comes to mind when looking at a visible satellite image of the east coast, WOW! The cloud shield from Sandy extends from Canada all the way down to Georgia and South Carolina just showing the magnitude in size of this storm. In fact, the western edge of the cloud shield extends into the Great Lakes and will keep filtered sunshine over northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin through today, tonight and a little into Wednesday. Also along the outer edge of the storm are the strong winds noted through the Great Lakes. Gale Warnings, Storm Warnings, High Wind Warnings and Lake Shore Flood Warnings continue for the areas surrounding not only Lake Michigan but also the other lakes. Earlier this morning a section of I-90 was closed in northeast Ohio due to water running over top and into rivers from Lake Erie.
Wind gusts this afternoon will remain near 35-40 mph across the Stateline but higher gusts will be found to the east closer to Chicago and northwest Indiana. Gusty north winds continue into Wednesday before what's left of Sandy moves into eastern Canada.
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