This is certainly true - Joe Bastardi (for one) has been beside himself all day tweeting about the incongruity of it all. Now the buoys and weather stations haven't reported anything beyond about 78mph on the winds - but those are static data grabs - not the maximums.
Nonetheless, the highest wind gust of any kind I've actually heard has been 115 mph...and nothing sustained near that. My own amateurish best guess here is that the sheer size of the storm is being held together by that low pressure, but something else about its characteristics is keeping the wind speeds from being more typical of a 950 mb storm ... normally a solid Cat 3.
> but something else about its characteristics is keeping the wind speeds from being more typical of a 950 mb storm ... normally a solid Cat 3.
Perhaps its the millions of prayers being lifted up.