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windy everywhere this year?
Is it just here in north Texas, or is it windy all across the U.S.? Today,
we had wind gusts to 51 mph. Just to get out of a car you have to fight to get the door open. Ride a bicycle? Hah! I did on Tuesday, when the wind gusts were "just" up to 35 mph, but this today is ridiculous..... Pat |
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windy everywhere this year?
Pat who? wrote:
Is it just here in north Texas, or is it windy all across the U.S.? Today, we had wind gusts to 51 mph. Just to get out of a car you have to fight to get the door open. Ride a bicycle? Hah! I did on Tuesday, when the wind gusts were "just" up to 35 mph, but this today is ridiculous..... For more than a month we have had unusually high winds from unusual directions. That along with stinking hot weather for a day or two followed by cold weather requiring long sleeves and pants. http://tinyurl.com/5egnjn Europe has been suffering from similar conditions with more than average rain and snow, while snowing only at high elevation such as twelve feet deep at the top of the Stelvio and Matterhorn-Gornergrat where skiing has been a flop because there is only gravel below on the ski run that looks so great above. It's snowing like mad now. http://www.topin.ch/scripts/big_img.php?bild=zer.jpg (Gornergrat) http://webcam.popso.it/stelvio.php?PASSOALTO2 (Stelvio) These must be viewed at daylight hours in Central European Time. Jobst Brandt |
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windy everywhere this year?
We had a few windier than normal weeks here in Long Island, New York, but it
seems to be calm and turning to spring now. The last really windy day was last Saturday, when my wife and I had quite a tough time pedaling straight into the wind on a day of temperatures in the upper 70s. In general, this countrywide escalation in the number of tornadoes and other violent windstorms is a bit unnerving... |
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"Papa Tom" We had a few windier than normal weeks here in Long Island, New York, but it seems to be calm and turning to spring now. The last really windy day was last Saturday, when my wife and I had quite a tough time pedaling straight into the wind on a day of temperatures in the upper 70s. In general, this countrywide escalation in the number of tornadoes and other violent windstorms is a bit unnerving... Sorry, but some of the words you use don't resonate with me. For example 'Upper 70's". I am pretty sure that happens during the dark hours, not the daytime hours. And "calm"--what exactly is that, anyway? And, "turning to Spring" ? It's June in Texas and Spring has long gone! (unless you consider 95 degree temps to be Spring, sigh). I have come (in my mind) to an accommodation with the wind where I don't mind (so much) the headwinds because all I do is gear down about 4 times. It's the gusting side winds that worry me. When I have to ride tilted, leaning into the wind and then a sudden gust comes along, it gets downright scary. Once, my entire bike and I moved about 2 feet to the downwind side when that occurred. On Tuesday, when I last rode, I turned so that I had a tailwind and the absence of wind sound was disturbing. It was so eerily quiet all of a sudden! And, last night, deep into the night, the wind was still churning around. I thought wind usually died down at dusk! I hope Robbie Knievel doesn't kill himself with that stunt this weekend. He plans to jump over a bunch of HumVees on his motorcycle, but with this wind, he just might come down somewhere he didn't intend to land.... Pat in TX |
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windy everywhere this year?
Sorry, but some of the words you use don't resonate with me. For
example 'Upper 70's". I am pretty sure that happens during the dark hours, not the daytime hours. And "calm"--what exactly is that, anyway? LOL. I travel to Texas quite often on business, so I know what you mean. Fortunately, for us Yankees here in NEW York, a thing called "Spring" actually came around this year. Temps have actually been quite comfortbale for several days now, although tomorrow, the mercury will explode to 88 degrees and the humidity will probably be as high as it can possibly go without actually raining. Winds have definitely died down, though. I was really psyched to fly a kite with my 16 month old grandson last weekend, but I couldn't find a constant enough wind to keep the danged thing in the air. Of course, that wasn't the case while I was riding earlier that same day, when those "side winds" you described were ferrocious. TM |
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windy everywhere this year?
Pat wrote:
Is it just here in north Texas, or is it windy all across the U.S.? Today, we had wind gusts to 51 mph. Just to get out of a car you have to fight to get the door open. Ride a bicycle? Hah! I did on Tuesday, when the wind gusts were "just" up to 35 mph, but this today is ridiculous..... Much the same in the UK this year. It's going to take a lot of pleasure out of cycling if this is to be the new long-term weather pattern. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture freelance writer |
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windy everywhere this year?
On Jun 5, 6:00*pm, "Pat" wrote:
Is it just here in north Texas, or is it windy all across the U.S.? Today, we had wind gusts to 51 mph. Just to get out of a car you have to fight to get the door open. Ride a bicycle? Hah! *I did on Tuesday, when the wind gusts were "just" up to 35 mph, but this today is ridiculous..... Pat South-eastern Wisconsin has been colder and wetter than normal ever since December. I bitched and moaned about the snow in older posts - so much snow that most communities ran short on salt, which is not good for bike riders. Winds have not been exceptional. This is a windier area than most, but there's been nothing out of the ordinary. The last few days have brought much warmer temperatures - as high as 87 yesterday, and huge rainfalls as a weather front has moved back and forth and back between northern IL and central WI, touching off big thunderstorms; several inches of rain fell yesterday, and another inch or two today. But it hasn't been all day rains. I biked 64 miles yesterday and 38 so far today,and have stayed dry. But I've gotten drenched on my work commutes twice in the last 10 days. |
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