Is It windier this year ?
 

I'm in Houston. It blows like crazy in the autumn and spring. But not in the summer, or at least it didn't before. Just when we could use a breeze around here, there generally isn't one. This year, its very windy. We are seeing winds around 20 mph and gust close to 30 mph nearly every day. Some of the locals, including myself believe its windier than usual here. I also track the weather at various other parts of the country for comparison. I am seeing similar numbers at other places also.

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in oklahoma city and fly in pocasset south of tuttle. its been crazy windy this last month and especially the last two or three days.

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I live in Southwest Oklahoma and it definitely has been windier this year. We had just a handfull of days in the last 2 months that we could fly. And it's been killing me because I've been trying to get a review of the Top Flite B-25 finished. Luckily we got flying weather last sunday and I got to fly it.

Ken

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[:o] Here in michigan it's been nasty windy also, were flying about a 1/4 of what we usally do and it's been colder than normal too.
waterloged

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Global warming just messes everything up doesn't it? ;)

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Wow it's summer in Texas already. It's still spring here in Oregon. The weather here has been a little cooler and then a little hotter than normal, if you average that it becomes normal, and the wind is about like it always is .

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It's been bad here in Indianapolis too. Also look at all of the rain and tornadoes recently.

I think it has to do with the world preparing for it's demise on 12/21/2012 ;)

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Yeah all this cool weather we've had because of global warming is very upsetting.... [&:]

Another Okie chiming in... There has been a lot more high winds this year than I have seen in a long time. The wind damage hear in Tulsa is almost as bad as the ice storms we had last winter. The trees are really taking a beating, and it seems roofs get repaired one week and need it again the next week. Worst of all is it makes finding a time to fly difficult. I am fine flying in wind, but much over 20mph and I perfer not to risk it. The only time I have flown lately in right as the sun goes down, the wind will drop below 10mph and I can fly my slow stick in a flood plane next to my neighborhood. I need somewhere to fly indoors....

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It's windy in Dallas, more than normal.

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Its been windy for the last few weeks hear in Michigan only flew 3 times last month.

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If you'd just buy some of Al's Carbon Offsets then all your troubles would go away. Get out yer pocket books and dig deep, Al needs yer dinnero!

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Shhhhh !!!! Quiet man ! How are we going to have a conspiracy if everyone knows about it ?:)

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Last night even the local new mentioned all the high winds we have had this year compared to the past years. Today it is only blowing gusts in the Las Vegas area of 35mph. Not really high for here but it is for this time of year plus these little storms are getting through and cooling things down?? No problem from me with the cool weather but this wind is getting stupid.

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Can't say about Texas but around here (Utah County, Utah) you either learn to fly in the wind or take up golf. That's the way it's been since I started flyin' RC in the early seventies and it's still true today. The idea that man can change the climate just goes to show how egotistical some people can think. Get out those bucks and buy them thar Carbon Offsets.

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Yeah! Windy in the Austin area too. Been seeing gusts around 30 and pretty steady around 20 the last couple of days.
Edwin

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I'm in Eastern North Carolina and we fly year round. I enjoy flying in high winds. I maidened a new SPAD Swept Wing Canard this year. Because it was a new design for me it required a great deal of test flying to settle on the CG and the needed changes so it would do the knife edge. I was forced to test it in high winds. More than a few days I came home without a flight. This has been the windiest year in at least 10 years.

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Bath Illinois chimming in its been very windy around here also weve only been out at the feild for about 5 weekends now we decided to just fly anyway winds are around 20 to 30 mph on a everyday basis
so much for bringing out the nice planes so far
MADDOG

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Been very windy here. I am building a new school, and the steel erector has to stop picking up steel around 10:00 am each day. Today they had a beam up in the air that was swung out at a 30 degree angle due to the wind.

When I was learning to fly last year one day was very windy. He told me we might as well fly. is comment was, "If you can't fly in the wind, you won't be flying much."

But is has been very windy. And yes, it is full on summer here. Mid 90's for highs, and mid 80's for lows.

And no, that is not global warming, it is always that hot during summer around here.

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Funny someone should post about this. I was thinking the same thing a few days ago. In fact, it's windy here right now. I expect it in March/April but not so much in June. I hope it settles down by the weekend.

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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.

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It is always windy at our field as well fly on top of a hill. But it has been windier this year than I remember. We have "Electric Fridays" at our field and many of those fridays have been spent just sitting under the shed griping about the wind. As for our big planes, it has made us better pilots for sure, I feel like I could fly just about anywhere now.

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"Is It windier this year ?"

Yes!

Increased Thermal Activity Also (Hot Air)

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wisconsin here,

and here is our forcast for tomorrow [X(]

Friday
Windy. Partly sunny. Chance of thunderstorms in the morning...then thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may be severe in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph shifting to the southwest 20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph in the afternoon. Chance of thunderstorms 60 percent.

im getting tired of this #%$^@ ;)


bassman

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saw on the news the other day that there is an unusal dip in the jet stream....unusal not uncommon....not global warming....that is causing the atmosphere to be more unsettled....thats why there have been so many tornados in the midwest....and I'm guessing so windy

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It is also windy here
Today 40 mps gusting to 50 mph
I can't remember a year like this before.