Does it seem like it was unusually windy last month?
You're not wrong. This March came in like a lion -- but the lion never left. Even though it is typically the windiest month of the spring, this March was the windiest on record in many U.S. cities and in the nation at large.
AccuWeather meteorologists found that almost every major city east of the Rockies ranked first or second for the highest average wind gusts for March.
Almost every major city had windiest March
Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Little Rock, Kansas City, Indianapolis and Chicago broke their previous average wind gust record for March by a significant margin of 1 mph or more. Indianapolis was the windiest of the windy cities, breaking the previous average wind gust record of 33.69 mph in 2022 by 1.51 mph with a reading of 35.20 mph.