Strong to severe thunderstorms and heavy rain will impact portions of the central Plains into the Upper Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic through the weekend. A stretch of unusually hot and humid weather is expected across portions of the central U.S. and the Southeast beginning this weekend and continuing through next week. The heat may reach dangerous levels, particularly mid to late next week. Read More >
April 2022 Windiest on Record!You may have noticed that it was a bit windy across the High Plains during the month of April. Many have asked "How unusual was all the wind?' and we have looked through our available climatological data to try to answer this question. Due to the way wind measurements have changed over the years, long term wind records can be difficult to establish. Using a dataset going back to 1965 NWS Goodland looked at the following criteria:
For all three of these categories, April 2022 ranked #1.
The following tables show how April 2022 compare to previous years. The top 10 values are plotted and in the case of a tie all years that reached the value are included.
What makes April of 2022 even more impressive is that April is on average the windiest month of the year, with April, March and May being the months with the highest average wind speed. The following graph courtesy of the Iowa State Mesonet
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