UPDATE ON PEAK WIND GUST IN THE AREA: At 9am CDT, a WIND GUST OF 63 mph WAS RECORDED AT THE HARRISON-DEVER CRIB 3 MILES OFF THE CHICAGO LAKE MICHIGAN SHORELINE It is one wild morning on Lake Michigan and across the Greater Chicago area with howling winds which have downed trees, flood-producing drenching rains punctuated with lightning overnight—a sign of the involvement of towering convective cells—the sort which produce particularly intense rainfall—and all this as huge waves continue pounding

10K views · 423 reactions | Here’s how wind turbines work: wind turns the blades around a shaft inside the turbine, which spins a generator. Energy then travels through cables under the seabed and connects to an offshore substation, and then to a power station on land. https://cbsn.ws/3TekJzK | 60 Minutes | Facebook