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Cheyenne Meteorologist: Blame La Nina For The Windy Weather
It's been unusually windy in southeast Wyoming lately.
But a Cheyenne-based meteorologist says we can expect stretches of similar weather through the next few months. While windy weather is nothing new in southeast Wyoming, we've been seeing a lot of it lately and it's been pretty intense. Wind speeds over 90 miles per hour have been recorded in the area on multiple occasions in recent days.
Statewide, a gust hit 118 miles per hour not long ago in Clark, near Cody.
The National Weather Service says wind speeds of 74 miles per hour or greater are considered "hurricane-force" winds. We've been topping out at or above that range with great regularity recently.
So we asked Cheyenne-based meteorologist Don Day Jr. what is behind the recent windy weather.
Here is his response:
''it is a typical pattern we see in la niña, we are in a robust 2 year la niña so these extended windy periods will happen off on until la niña fades which won’t be until late spring.''
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