Friendly City Fortune. Pet of the Week. Taste of the Valley. Tell Me Something Good. Bridging The Great Health Divide. Building Our Communities. Latest Newscasts. Submit Photos and Videos. Gray DC Bureau. Investigate TV. Closings and Delays. Dismiss Closings Alerts Bar. Why has it been such a windy spring? By Chief Meteorologist Aubrey Urbanowicz. Published: May. Share on Facebook. Email This Link. But why is that the case? We sat down with National Weather Service NWS meteorologist Scott Entrekin of the Boulder, Colorado office to discuss why the winds seem to pick up during certain seasons, leaving you stuck on the ground.
Before we start to unpack why winds become so strong in the spring, let's quickly review where wind comes from. High-pressure air seeks low-pressure air as it attempts to find its' equilibrium, causing anything from a gentle breeze to a gale-force wind. You've probably heard that all weather phenomena are a result of the uneven heating of the earth's surface, but how does this relate to the wind?
Since the earth's surface is not uniform, the sun heats things like grass, sand, and water differently, leading to different air temperatures. This temperature gradient changes the density of air, causing rising and sinking motions.
So what determines the strength of the wind? There are several factors, which we'll cover in the sections below. Think of it like geese migrating, south in the winter, north in the summer. According to Entrekin, there is a correlation between the intensity of the jetstream with surface winds. High-pressure air seeks lower-pressure air. How this relates to winds… The difference in airmass temperatures between warm and cold air create differing pressures, which in turn creates wind.
The greater the difference in the high and low pressure systems, the stronger the force of the winds.
Another factor that will help determine the speed of the wind is the distance between an area of high pressure and an area of low pressure. During the month of March, low and high pressure systems are closer together and winds are stronger as a result. You can see this on a weather surface map. Isobars are lines of constant or equal pressure on a weather map. If you look at a weather map with isobars on them the yellow lines and see they are very close together, that is an area you can expect to see relatively strong winds.
If there is a lot of space between these lines, the winds are relatively light. Weather Surface Map. Carson Wentz has been a solid fantasy quarterback for much of the season, and the playing the Jaguars in Week 10 gives him another chance to shine. The group inside the vehicle yelled anti-Asian slurs and told them to "go back to where they came from.
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