{"id":131769,"date":"2026-01-21T11:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131769\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:12:21","slug":"americas-windiest-city-isnt-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131769\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Windiest City Isn&#8217;t Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Chicago may bear the &#8220;Windy City&#8221; title, but there are at least 10 other US cities that are even gustier. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/blog\/windiest-cities-in-the-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redfin<\/a> decided to go beyond the usual hot\/cold weather analysis that people often undertake when deciding on a place to live, diving deep into the cities that consistently have higher-than-average annual wind speeds (so a one-off hurricane or tornado won&#8217;t necessarily catapult a city to the top of the list). Texas claims five of the cities in the top 10, including Amarillo, which comes in at No. 1. Here, the windy winners:<\/p>\n<p>  Amarillo, Texas  Rochester, Minnesota  Lubbock, Texas  Corpus Christi, Texas  Wichita, Kansas  Boston  Oklahoma City  Wichita Falls, Texas  Fargo, North Dakota  Abilene, Texas  Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/blog\/windiest-cities-in-the-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> on each city, including contributing factors to their windblown existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Chicago may bear the &#8220;Windy City&#8221; title, but there are at least 10 other US cities that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2648,155,157,156,56511,3291,168,56513,54572,27,56512,56514,5823,17349],"class_list":["post-131769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-amarillo","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-high-winds","tag-lists","tag-lubbock","tag-minn","tag-rochester","tag-texas","tag-us-cities","tag-wichita","tag-wind","tag-winds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}