This week's question comes from Morning Brief reader Richard Pimentel, who asks, “Why is it that Coachella weekend always has to have one windy one and one hot one? Is Coachella really a secret lab for weather experimenting?”

Meteorologist Jonathan Erdman: First, mid-April is typically hot in Coachella Valley, where the annual music and arts festival takes place. The average high is in the middle to upper 80s, and highs in the triple digits have occurred in past Aprils.

And it turns out April is the windiest month of the year in Coachella. That's because you can still have large, strong storm systems swing through the West into the Plains that bring much more wind than rain to the deserts of California.

Southwest Aprils are typically quite dry because the jet stream that drives storm systems begins to migrate far enough north that even when a western storm system moves through. Most of its rain and mountain snow falls well north of the deserts of southeast California.

Nearby Indio, California, averages only .08 inches and one day of measurable precipitation each April.

So, no, Coachella isn’t home to a secret lab for weather experimentation — the timing of the festival takes place in a month where winds and heat are typically at their highest.