I also vote thumbs-up for a Forum weather thread category.
I'm no meteorologist, but I can give a weather report from West Alton this morning. It's VERY windy out of the north to northwest, with periodic gusts over 45 mph, and the temperature is going down. At 7 AM the temp. was 20 and we've been watching it creep downward to 18 as I am writing this at around 9:15 AM. Not a nice day to be outside doing any yard work!
Update - I took the following photo at 10:15 AM looking northwest toward Diamond Island:
The temperature was down to 16 degrees when I snapped this shot.