Which city is the true “windy city”?
Dodge City, Kansas is the windiest CITY in the US (6th on the list of windiest US PLACES, but the first actual city to be listed.) MANHATTAN, Kan. – The links between the wind and Kansas are long and strong. But, how real those links are can depend on viewpoint – no matter if the subject is the state’s wind-speed records, its “windy” name or its ties to the Dust Bowl. “We have room for claiming Dodge City, Kan., is the windiest city in the United States. The newest analyses put Dodge’s historical annual average wind speed at 13.9 miles per hour,” said Mary Knapp, state climatologist, based with Kansas State University Research and Extension. Room for that claim exists, however, only because the National Climatic Data Center develops its “windiest” list by comparing the long-term records of 275 weather stations. The current list puts Dodge City in sixth place and Amarillo, Tex., at eighth. Yet, Dodge is the first town. The other stations in the Top 10 are measuring-type equipment on mou
