Why is pincher creek so windy

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OnSite Reports are crowdsourced user-generated wind and weather reports, contributed by real people via different applications. Click the arrows to go backward or forward in time. Brittain says the main reason Alberta gets so much wind in the winter is due to the position of the jet stream over the region.

Both the steep east slopes, as well as large gaps in the mountain chain — such as Crowsnest Pass, that funnel winds through and accelerate them — result in strong winds to the east of the mountains," he said in an email to CBC News. And that can lead to very strong winds in the immediate reach of these Rocky Mountains," he said. Tim Weis, a professor for mechanical engineering at the University of Alberta, says roughly six per cent of Alberta's annual electricity comes from wind.

On average, Canada is about just under six per cent, and it varies pretty widely from province to province," he said. So Texas is a huge wind energy boom. In fact, there's more wind turbines in Texas than all of Canada combined.

He says Alberta's wind resources are still excellent and that there's lots of opportunities in store. He says that lots of wind-powered projects are being built in the next bit, and expects by the fleet will be twice the size of what it was a couple of years ago. Cowboy Smithx, a Blackfoot filmmaker from the Piikani and Kainai tribes of southern Alberta, says wind has always felt nostalgic to him. I've got a very different relationship with the wind," he said.

It dominated our daily lives. We had to basically, you know, adjust our schedules based on how windy it was going to be on a particular day. With the high circulating clockwise and the low moving the other way, the air between was pinched into a jet of fast-moving winds that rushed down the Rocky Mountains and hit the Prairies as a warm, dry and fierce wind. The super-charged Chinook broke records for high temperatures, but even more pronounced were the near hurricane-strength winds.

On November 22, wind gusts were so strong near Nanton that eight vehicles were blown off the highway and the roof of a high school gymnasium was peeled away, forcing students and staff to evacuate the premises. The strong winds also contributed to the rapid spread of a fire at a feedlot near Cayley. Five days later, on November 27, more destructive winds blew into Calgary smashing windows and ripping away at building facades in the downtown.

Flying debris became a hazard for both motorists and pedestrians on roads and walkways.