Windy, windy day!

Well it was a bit breezy yesterday, but today it will be even more so. Sustained winds around 15 to 25 miles per hour with wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour from the south... look at some of those wind barbs!

Now the reason we're seeing these breezy conditions is because we're somewhat sandwiched between two areas of different pressures. A low pressure to our NW, and a high pressure to our SE with the winds circling around them as noted below.So now imagine that our state is like a tube of toothpaste except instead of toothpaste in the tube, it's air. We've got high pressure pushing on the right side of the tube and low pressure pushing on the the left side of the tube... so with 2 pressure systems pushing on our "toothpaste tube" what else could happen but the toothpaste being squeezed out - or in our case today... the air being pushed out, resulting in some strong winds.

Good thing the temperatures are still warm for this time of the year, otherwise wind chill values could be downright cold.

~KDLT Meteorologist Jesse Ritka