Wind gusts should increase over the western half of Lower Michigan during the second half of this morning. Those stronger wind gusts will sweep across eastern Lower Michigan during the afternoon.

Here’s the animation of a computer model wind gust forecast. The wind gusts may be five mph overdone, but the timing and location of strongest gusts should be accurate.

Wind gust forecast for today shows the red areas of 50 mph+ gusts.

The wind gust forecast above shows two areas of 50 mph gusts moving across Lower Michigan. One area develops in central Lower Michigan north of Lansing and moves east-southeast into the Thumb. Another area of strong gusts should develop over northwest Lower Michigan around the Traverse City region and then move into northeast Lower Michigan.

Here’s the wind gust forecast for noon today.

Wind gust forecast at noon shows 50 mph+ gusts around Traverse City area, and developing around Saginaw and Flint areas.

The strong wind gusts continue to move east at 2 p.m. this afternoon.

Strongest gusts are around Mancelona and northwest Lower and the Saginaw Bay region. Much of Lower Michigan will have at least 40 mph gusts.

By 6 p.m. the strongest gusts will have moved off to the east.

The strongest wind gusts will have moved east into Canada by 6 p.m. this evening.

Winds will still be gusty this evening in the southern half of Lower Michigan, but with gusts only topping out around 40 mph.