Tuesday wasn’t a great day to rock that fancy new ’do as Mother Nature did some hair styling of her own throughout the Bay Area, with wind gusts approaching 100 miles per hour in at least one spot, according to the National Weather Service.

Top wind speed reached 97 mph on Loma Prieta during the recent storm, the weather service said. At 3,790 feet, Loma Prieta is the highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains and is about 10 miles west of Highway 17 in Santa Clara County.

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