Yeah it's been windy here in New York too but looking at these posts crack me up. If you can find some 100 year old guy that still can remember clearly, I'm sure he'd say something like "You think this is windy, you shoulda been around back in '32 during the dust bowl. It was so windy everyday that yada yada yada blah blah blah". The fact is, the temperature varies due to many reasons and not just our pitiful excuse of global warming due to carbon dioxide build up. Man is notorious for over estimating his importance and impact on things at a global level. We can wipe ourselves out with nukes but the earth will just heal itself like it's done for the past billion years. The fact is that the sun has more influence than anything we can do here and much of that has to do with solar cycles of activity. Also, how many remember when Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Phillipines back in the early '90's? Due to the dust clouds that spewed out, the following year, the average temperature dropped something like 3 degrees. And it's common knowledge that there was a mini ice age that occurred back in the mid 1300's. Whole villages in the Alps were being swallowed up by the glacier that advancing relentlessly. It's even a matter of record that priests went out to confront the glacier because they feared it was possessed by the devil. The things you learn on the History channel.

Anyway, I digress. It's been a bit windier than normal but I'll just learn to fly heavier, more wind forgiving planes and learn to crab or side slip in for my landings. Of course that wind can be a help too... like keeping the gnats off you, cooling you off on a hot day and if it's a steady head wind, slow that plane right down for landing. Guess it's all in your perspective...is the glass half full or half empty.