Windy weather inescapable in spring

 

Tell me if this has happened to you: you look outside at a sunny Michiana sky during March or April and head out to enjoy the nice weather, only to be accosted by a wicked wind making it feel like winter.

While temperatures and sky conditions can vary wildly from year to year during the spring season, one thing remains fairly constant: the wind.

While it might appear to some, including myself, that it's been windier than normal, the data I studied says that's not the case.

Over the past five years, including this spring so far, wind gusts top 30 miles per hour about half of the time during Michiana springs.

That's usually the speed it takes to move your garbage can a little down the street or to at least pop the lid open.

Windy weather is par for the course this time of year, mainly because of the shifting weather patterns and stronger differences in pressure.

The atmosphere wants everything to be in balance, and the wind is the main force that tries to create a balance of equal temperature and pressure.

When you get bigger differences in temperature and stronger storm systems to develop, windy weather doesn't lag very far behind.

While Thursday was a rare non-windy day across Michiana, wind gusts will pick up this weekend, especially on Saturday.