Rediscovering home: Keeping '54'
Bruce Moats
Gusty winds set the butterflies free. But “54” is safe at home in Mineral County.
Gusts of wind tore apart a solar-powered, wind chime butterflies hanging from a tree in the front yard. It appears to me, and others, that the wind appears to be more fierce than I remember growing up here. Memory can be as flighty as a butterfly, so I called the National Weather Service Office in Missoula. Dave Noble took the time to scour their data and explain the science to a novice at best.
What’s the answer? Well, that’s not particularly clear. For one, the NWS does not have a station in Mineral County. The data is from Missoula. Further, Noble said the NWS’s wind data is not well consolidated.
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