Why is it so windy in Shishmaref, Alaska?
If you look at how the air is moving, you find that there are certain areas of the world where you tend to have really deep storms. One of those areas is in the Bering Sea. It impacts the west coast of Alaska. Shishmaref is in the area where there are lots of big storms on a regular basis. With those storms there is a lot of air moving, which is the wind. In Shishmaref, there are no other landforms to divert the air, because the land is flat, so the wind hits it directly.
