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 average wind speed of 13.9 mph for the month. This number may seem low, but consider that April nights are not usually very windy so a lot of that average wind speed comes from very windy afternoons when the sun is shining down on bare, black soil creating turbulence. Well, the average wind speed so far this month has been about 13.9 mph; exactly the average. However, over the previous five years, the average April wind speed in Fargo Moorhead is 12.0 mph; considerably below average. So it turns out that this spring is closer to the long term average for wind. But a run of calmer Aprils has skewed our memories.
Meteorologist John Wheeler
