I am not surprised that the official forecast would try to down play the strength of the winds. This storm has been playing with everyone's imagination. The conditions are so inconsistent that by the time an official consensus has been made, the storm has done something different. They do not want an evacuation on their hands if the thing keeps fluctuating from convection to no convection. We have sunny skies, mild summer morning temperatures and it does not seem like a storm is any where near by. This is in Lakeland just about as central to central Florida as one can get.