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Can you comment on https://weatherspark.com/y/4750/Average-Weather-in-Amarillo-Texas-United-States-Year-Round#Sections-Wind https://weatherspark.com/y/4750/Aver
by chrismorgan 6y ago
Can you comment on https://weatherspark.com/y/4750/Average-Weather-in-Amarillo-Texas-United-States-Year-Round#Sections-Wind https://weatherspark.com/y/4750/Average-Weather-in-Amarillo-...? It suggests that although during winter north and west are the strongest wind directions, in the summer you get south winds up to three quarters of the time, and precious little north wind at all.
This is pretty consistent with my loose understanding of how these winds work and my experience in south east Australia: the predominant wind directions vary very significantly by season, and even within seasons substantial deviation is much more common than people often think.
- brudgers 6y agoAmarillo is near the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado. The large wind farms are to the west on top of the mesa. The Llano is the southern end of the High Plains that extend all the way into Montana. As it passes the Rockies the Jet Stream tends to bend south. Further east the weather is more varied. Or to put it another way, its a fair bet people settled in Amarillo for its less horrible weather. There’s not a major city between it and the Rio Grande at Albuquerque 450km to the west just some small towns here and there mostly where the railroad did something interesting. The Llano and the high plains weather patterns are dominated by macro scale climate patterns. This is why the large wind farms are there.