Between June 1 and June 13, Anchorage logged 13 days where wind speeds topped 30 miles per hour at the airport, the official weather observation spot, according to data provided by Rick Thoman, a climate and weather expert with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy. …
But it wasn’t just June. Taking into consideration a historical change in the way wind speeds were measured, “there is a strong case to be made that this is the windiest May 1-June 14 on record” for readings taken at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport weather recording site, said Michael Lawson, an assistant sea ice meteorologist and general forecaster with the National Weather Service in Anchorage. “Looking at just the first two weeks of June, this is the windiest since 1970.”