Whirls
The atmosphere, being invisible to the human eye, makes it is difficult to visualize the motions of the air without the aid of some object. Because of this most people have the idea that the wind...
View ArticleSide Effect
One good side-effect of our cool and cloudy weather lately is the relative lack of windy days. Fargo Moorhead is a very windy place and April is, on average, our windiest month of the year with an...
View ArticleWind is the Word
Last week?s weather theme was wind. First of all, we had destructive thunderstorm winds on Memorial Day. A gust of 72 mph was measured at Hector International Airport where the official wind readings...
View ArticlePerspective
A week after the very memorable Memorial Day windstorm, it is time for a little perspective. The highest measured wind gust was 72 mph at the airport. Damage around town suggests local wind gusts...
View ArticleGusty
When you see a report that the wind speed at the airport is, for example, 15 miles per hour, it would be unusual for the wind speed to actually be steady at that speed. Officially, the so-called...
View ArticleMeasuring Snowfall
Measuring snow can often more art than science. On occasion the snow falls straight down and most of the reports in a small area are approximately the same. There is always going to be natural...
View ArticleIt’s Windy Here, But Its Windier Elsewhere
We know our weather is often windy in the Red River Valley. We have more blizzards than anywhere else in the United States owing to long winters with snow on the ground and flat terrain which lets the...
View ArticleThe North Wind Doth Blow
It has been a windy fall. Very windy compared to last year. Through September, October, and the first 21 days of November, there have been wind gusts of at least 20 mph on 56 of the 82 days and gusts...
View ArticleWindy Again
There have been several inquiries into the WDAY Weather Center office lately about how unusually windy the spring has been. April is, on average, the windiest month of the year, with an historical...
View ArticleWake Low Winds
Sometimes after a large thunderstorm complex has passed, an area of very cool air can drop down from the mid-levels of the atmosphere. In certain, hard to predict circumstances, this can produce a...
View ArticleHard Wind Is Hard
The basic force that causes wind is a difference in air pressure. Air naturally flows from high pressure to low pressure. In the atmosphere, it does this in a circular way due to Earth’s rotation....
View ArticleWindy
Wind is almost constant in the Great Plains. The average wind speed in Fargo, day and night, throughout the year, is 12.3 mph. Although the average wind speeds are lower in July and August, summer...
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