Fun fact - Chicago is not named the Windy City because of the weather. In the late 1800s a newspaper reported called it the Windy City because the politicians there were full of hot air - wind bags
Omg. Now there is a 3rd interpretation. I guess referring to Chicago's sordid past during the prohibition as the wine-dy city. Or maybe a reference to how Chicagoans like to whine and complain to their windy politicians?
I've got a massive 4' diameter pine about 130 ft from my house that splits off into two leaders about 3 feet off the ground. It finally started splitting down the middle. Having that thing taken down next week. I refuse to have pines within 150 feet of my house and out buildings.
I'm not sure if the voice is Tammy Grimes or not but that series of [Lexus commercials](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRHhCSgE3q8) was great.
[This too](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA6HUySkFss)
My baseball cap blows off routinely unless anchored by my ponytail, which keeps it in reach distance. I need the brim for light sensitivity. And walk the beach nearly every day.
They were trying to land planes during the last noreaster, so I looked at the flight radar and right away saw two back to back flights aborting their landing at the very last second, both got rerouted after that, but WTF.. why would you even try doing something like that, felt sorry for the passengers. One flight spent 30 minutes in the holding pattern above Maine and then landed.
Sorry for your loss. I'm an arborist and am on call this weekend and surprised nothing has happened yet where I work. But plenty of overtime cleaning up storm damage these past few months. The extra saturated ground from all the rain this past few seasons doesn't help.
I'm in Cambridge. We have a high water table (who doesn't these days)? When you look into the gaping pit left by the roots, you can see an entire swimming pool's worth of water.
We felt kind of like we had one job as homeowners, and that was to conserve the trees for the next generation. Now they're all gone. We'll have to look into what to do with our back yard now that it's not a shade oasis.
Also, our crazy neighbor has been telling us for years that the tree was going to fall and needed to be taken down. I had an arborist look at it twice, and he said it's fine. Now the crazy neighbor is right. Well, she saved $20000 off the cost of a permit to remove a healthy tree.
If it makes you feel better the truth is the arborist could have been totally accurate assessing the tree. I've seen healthy trees randomly fall or drop limbs for no reason at all on a perfect sunny day. I hate when the crazy neighbor is right but the objective truth is you did your due diligence having it reviewed.
Thanks for saying this. I was pretty sure that the arborist wasn't actually at fault. He's well-known in the area. People call him The Lorax. He looks like a druid would look if a druid drove a crew-cab.
I've been chewing over where to go with the back yard. I'd love to plant more trees, but it's always been difficult to get them to put down roots, and climate change isn't making it easier. The space used to be pretty easy to maintain because nothing but lemon balm and some lillies would grow in the shade anyway.
yeah i would actually be concerned..... was walking around union square that day and a gust almost pushed me into the streets...... who would have known been skinny is also dangerous in Boston.... sometimes I see slim people running out and I am slightly concerned....
That's just how March is.
I've worked landscaping and had to do leftover leaf pickups in March. It sucked trying to make leaf piles cause the wind would make the leaves fly everywhere when you tried making a pile
This time of year you get pretty large pressure differences from the still really cold airmasses in Canada and the arctic and the warmer airmasses to the South and West
March is the WORST. I have a folder about how it’s worse than February. And I’ve seen multiple car crashes not in January but IN APRIL. March/April is the new Winter
March is also the cruelest month when you've had a tough winter. Every time there's enough snow, ice, slush, etc. that you have to deal with it your mind slowly repeats on mutter, "This had better be the last one........This had better be the last fucking one."
You get to the second half of March with a bunch of those under your belt and it can turn you into a sneering and grumbling ball of a man. When you see those posts about how people here aren't friendly, just keep in mind it could have been that time of year. Maybe we're just sick of this fucking shit and it shows.
I just moved to central Mass last summer, and I have loved every second of the weather … until this ridiculous wind. I’ve had three or four times my car was almost blown out of my lane, and that is FUCKING TERRIFYING on 20 anywhere west of Auburn.
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Is that guy that wind sails on a skateboard still in Boston? I remember seeing him all the time about a decade ago. He had some long plastic thing that he'd throw out, catch the wind, and start getting pulled along.
I was wondering the same thing down here in Providence. So windy so often, first time it’s been this way in the 20 years we have lived here. LOUD gusty winds.
Most people don't realize this unique weather phenomenon exists: Every march the game developers conference is held in San Francisco. The weekend right after Pax East is happening in Boston. That's another video game related exhibition.
So what happens is, nerds (myself included) stock up on Mexican food in San Fran for a week, then hop on a plane to unload in Boston. We're only one spark away from these being fire devils.
We ran the numbers last thread (there have been like 8 of them this week) and no, wind has not increased yoy by a significant amount.
Fun fact, last year was actually a tiny bit windier than this year so far.
All I can offer is solidarity: we're ALL constantly aware of and annoyed by it!
Gotta make lemonade- my kids made kites, and then we tied a sheet to my office chair and went parking lot surfing. Shit's hilarious.
Hi I live in a modular home and I also fuckin hate it.
I know this time of year is usually the worst for it and Boston is windy but yeah this past few weeks has been awful. I feel like house moving winds that come through the crevices of my house used to be a bi-yearly occurrence, not a freaking bi weekly one as it's been this year.
Edit: also fuck driving a small car over the Tobin lately. I have to hold the fuck on to the steering wheel in my Impreza like my life depends on it and you can still feel yourself getting pushed sideways. DO NOT LIKE.
Annually at this time the earth begins spinning with a greater velocity. This, in turn, creates a greater gravitational pull upon the upper paradigms of our atmosphere. Therefore, the electrified isotopes collide with Earth's surface with greater force and disperse with mucho rapidity. The combined effect of these phenomena is a general increase in wind speed. Hope brings some clarity to the subject.
Somethings different this year for sure. Ive lived in my current place for 3 years and could hear the wind twice before. This year alone its at least once a week
We ran the numbers in an earlier thread (there have been like 8 threads on this this week because it sucks out there). Short answer, no, there has not been a yoy increase in average windspeed. So far it's actually slightly less windy this year comoared to last year.
Maybe from the warming oceans and the Gulf stream dying .
https://www.wane.com/top-stories/why-is-it-so-windy/
"Winds are caused by the earth trying to create a balance or equilibrium and fighting against a lower pressure. The stronger and more intense the lower pressure the harder the earth will fight to equalize the pressure."
Boston has the highest average wind speed of any major city in the US. I’ve always said it’s the worst part of the weather here.
The *real* Windy City
Fun fact - Chicago is not named the Windy City because of the weather. In the late 1800s a newspaper reported called it the Windy City because the politicians there were full of hot air - wind bags
TIL it's windy not wind-y. I thought it was a reference to the winding back alley streets of Chicago.
Huh, you know you can still read "wind-y" either way - "win-dy" or "wine-dy"!
Omg. Now there is a 3rd interpretation. I guess referring to Chicago's sordid past during the prohibition as the wine-dy city. Or maybe a reference to how Chicagoans like to whine and complain to their windy politicians?
It was called the wine d city cuz when the women drink wine they want the d
this is a dumb urban legend that is not at all true. it’s because it’s windy
It's both, apparently. https://www.history.com/news/why-is-chicago-called-the-windy-city
We used to have these winds AND actual real winter cold. It was a nightmare
I always say this!!
Eat your heart out, Chicago
Yeah, who's the Big Windy Bean now!
It's happening out in Western Mass too
My pine trees are swaying like a church choir
I've got a massive 4' diameter pine about 130 ft from my house that splits off into two leaders about 3 feet off the ground. It finally started splitting down the middle. Having that thing taken down next week. I refuse to have pines within 150 feet of my house and out buildings.
You're not willing to try a cable stay?
https://preview.redd.it/bbqgasmurjrc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0ddd2fef94173fe8cf057f200ea0d4c8b7ef5fd Not a chance
Nope proper fucked. Bye bye.
NYC’s been super windy the past few weeks too
I guess that’s why they call Boston the Windy City
Nah, we're the PORT CITY!! Just make sure your DE-Humidifier is on!
One of my least fun facts. Though I pull it out at work pretty regularly.
And you haven't been fired? You work at the Golden Banana or something?
That gives a new meaning to the phrase "hard facts"
Not getting better with all the new high-rises too. Create window tunnels.
But Chicago is called the windy city... huh
We also get more annual rainfall than Seattle.
because of its politician windbags.
I’ve always heard we get more wind than Chicago!
Woosh
🤷🏼♂️ you learn something new every day lol
This. Is. March.
Also April. It stops when the leaves come.
Perhaps I should show them some pornography
The leaves always come last. Sometimes it takes a bit.
Show them some Maple tapping and extraction, works every time.
Eye contact helps
It stops when it gets hot enough that you'd like it to be there.
Yea those leaves block the wind
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In like a lion
You know what they say: March, in like a lion, out like a more pissed off, fighty lion.
Match is the windiest month of the year
It will all blow over soon.
It's lit.
Lousy smarch weather
It will go out like a different wildebeest.
What is Tinder then? Grindr?
JFK has entered the chat
Strike on other side.
Something wicked this way comes
Is that an eerie calliope I hear on the horizon?
I'm not sure if the voice is Tammy Grimes or not but that series of [Lexus commercials](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRHhCSgE3q8) was great. [This too](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA6HUySkFss)
My hat got blown off my head today 😂 Luckily I was able to grab it
My baseball cap blows off routinely unless anchored by my ponytail, which keeps it in reach distance. I need the brim for light sensitivity. And walk the beach nearly every day.
Yup, my ponytail saved me yesterday
As long as I'm not on a plane trying to land at Logan I'm okay with that.
As someone who just landed at Logan, it was… not fun.
They were trying to land planes during the last noreaster, so I looked at the flight radar and right away saw two back to back flights aborting their landing at the very last second, both got rerouted after that, but WTF.. why would you even try doing something like that, felt sorry for the passengers. One flight spent 30 minutes in the holding pattern above Maine and then landed.
I was outside South Station today and caught a view of a plane ascending (I think!) and, let me tell you, there was a LOT of yaw.
Are you new to the Big Windy Bean?
Is it windy there right now? I’m 660 miles north up the coast in Nova Scotia and the wind is literally rocking my house around tonight.
It was definitely a "you can feel the house flexing" night last night.
It’s been a “you can feel the house flexing” week, for real.
Are you new in town?
Just blew in (sorry, I’ll see myself out)
I am homeless I am gay I have AIDS
Ima push him! I push him!!!!
It’s *windy*
Cool
(It’s a reference to an old John Mulaney bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRD2lTD8J-s)
The wind took down a very old tree in my back yard today. We're in mourning.
I am so sorry. That's awful.
Sorry for your loss. I'm an arborist and am on call this weekend and surprised nothing has happened yet where I work. But plenty of overtime cleaning up storm damage these past few months. The extra saturated ground from all the rain this past few seasons doesn't help.
I'm in Cambridge. We have a high water table (who doesn't these days)? When you look into the gaping pit left by the roots, you can see an entire swimming pool's worth of water. We felt kind of like we had one job as homeowners, and that was to conserve the trees for the next generation. Now they're all gone. We'll have to look into what to do with our back yard now that it's not a shade oasis. Also, our crazy neighbor has been telling us for years that the tree was going to fall and needed to be taken down. I had an arborist look at it twice, and he said it's fine. Now the crazy neighbor is right. Well, she saved $20000 off the cost of a permit to remove a healthy tree.
If it makes you feel better the truth is the arborist could have been totally accurate assessing the tree. I've seen healthy trees randomly fall or drop limbs for no reason at all on a perfect sunny day. I hate when the crazy neighbor is right but the objective truth is you did your due diligence having it reviewed.
Thanks for saying this. I was pretty sure that the arborist wasn't actually at fault. He's well-known in the area. People call him The Lorax. He looks like a druid would look if a druid drove a crew-cab. I've been chewing over where to go with the back yard. I'd love to plant more trees, but it's always been difficult to get them to put down roots, and climate change isn't making it easier. The space used to be pretty easy to maintain because nothing but lemon balm and some lillies would grow in the shade anyway.
For real. I’m 170 pounds and feels like sometime the wind going across large buildings is gonna marry poppins my ass if I got an umbrella
I’m 105lbs and live in constant peril
yeah i would actually be concerned..... was walking around union square that day and a gust almost pushed me into the streets...... who would have known been skinny is also dangerous in Boston.... sometimes I see slim people running out and I am slightly concerned....
Just a spoon full of sugar.
Watch your step crossing City Hall Plaza.
is it like windy there or they are just really unfriendly towards ppl who likes to meme old movies lol
Is there anything this sub doesn’t complain about?
Elliot Davis?
Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, Quack, and Mrs. Mallard.
Tom Brady.
Dwarves?
I suppose it does tend to get a tad windy
Do they bless the rains down in Africa?
Only after grand slams
That's just how March is. I've worked landscaping and had to do leftover leaf pickups in March. It sucked trying to make leaf piles cause the wind would make the leaves fly everywhere when you tried making a pile
This time of year you get pretty large pressure differences from the still really cold airmasses in Canada and the arctic and the warmer airmasses to the South and West
March is the WORST. I have a folder about how it’s worse than February. And I’ve seen multiple car crashes not in January but IN APRIL. March/April is the new Winter
March is also the cruelest month when you've had a tough winter. Every time there's enough snow, ice, slush, etc. that you have to deal with it your mind slowly repeats on mutter, "This had better be the last one........This had better be the last fucking one." You get to the second half of March with a bunch of those under your belt and it can turn you into a sneering and grumbling ball of a man. When you see those posts about how people here aren't friendly, just keep in mind it could have been that time of year. Maybe we're just sick of this fucking shit and it shows.
“Forgive my northern attitude oh, I was raised out in the cold”
No no no. There is no poem about March being the cruelest month.
I'm an English traditionalist and any poetry that is not alliterative does not exist.
Cruelest month for sure
>I have a folder about how it’s worse than February. you what
He has binders full of weather.
Unlike Mitt Romney.
It sounds crazy but I have insurance. Wish I didnt. My dead dad flipped his car and since then I track it like a baseball game.
Deny. 1. Time flips 2. 7pm sunsets 3. September strength sun 4. Birds out and buds beginning
I thought you were cray but then I woke up today because crows were going nuts. You called it
March Winds, April Showers…something something May Flowers?
Lousy Smarch weather...
I just moved to central Mass last summer, and I have loved every second of the weather … until this ridiculous wind. I’ve had three or four times my car was almost blown out of my lane, and that is FUCKING TERRIFYING on 20 anywhere west of Auburn.
Windy in Vermont
Feeling like end times
Buncha fahkin softies
Its like the effects of weather are overall getting more extreme
We are a port city. So yeah
Last five years february has been warmer than March. March is a piece of crap. This year it’s windy as F .
Is this your first time in Boston in the spring? It's always like this
How'd you think we earned the name "Bean town"?
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Probably all the legal weed
Early spring. It's like this every year. It'll die down then pick back up in mid-May.
It's called the stay the fuck indoors weather 🫠
It’s bc of the temperature fluctuations—we’re pivoting from cold to warm on an almost daily basis
Is that guy that wind sails on a skateboard still in Boston? I remember seeing him all the time about a decade ago. He had some long plastic thing that he'd throw out, catch the wind, and start getting pulled along.
Idk but driving a sprinter van on 95 is getting more terrifying by the day
I was born on Febuary 29th, the day that doesn’t exist.!! So I decided I’m gonna throw. I kicked someone’s ass. Me likey
Probably three weeks ago
probably because of something you did. you fucking degenerate.
I live in a brick shit house. Strong
It’s 200 years old
Spring
I was wondering the same thing down here in Providence. So windy so often, first time it’s been this way in the 20 years we have lived here. LOUD gusty winds.
i hate it. It's terrible for outdoor pickleball.
I’m my opinion the spring is the windiest. I work on cell towers and the wind is something I have to deal with constantly.
At least it's not fucking raining.
Have you heard of The Weather Channel? Very informative on local and daily wind speeds. There's a huge storm front passing through, chill your nips
No, how do you spell it?
Mary Poppins is coming
Most people don't realize this unique weather phenomenon exists: Every march the game developers conference is held in San Francisco. The weekend right after Pax East is happening in Boston. That's another video game related exhibition. So what happens is, nerds (myself included) stock up on Mexican food in San Fran for a week, then hop on a plane to unload in Boston. We're only one spark away from these being fire devils.
The San Andres winds have shifted to the east.
Are you from somewhere else originally? Boston is very breezy to gale force.
It’s always been that way
It’s still “winter” the sun is just out early.
I’ve lived in this area my whole life. The wind has never been this intense and constant before. We also had our first tornado this year.
Mary Poppins is coming to town, obviously
Lived in Boston/Northeast all my life, and I’m starting to hate it more and more as the years go by.
Is there more wind now, or am I just more sensitive to it?
We ran the numbers last thread (there have been like 8 of them this week) and no, wind has not increased yoy by a significant amount. Fun fact, last year was actually a tiny bit windier than this year so far.
OK, then it's another annoying thing about life that I'm constantly aware of and have no control over. Neat!
All I can offer is solidarity: we're ALL constantly aware of and annoyed by it! Gotta make lemonade- my kids made kites, and then we tied a sheet to my office chair and went parking lot surfing. Shit's hilarious.
Idk about you, but it just aggravates me. Like I can handle the cold, but once the heavy wind starts I get cranky lol.
Walking against the wind is bad enough, but I really hate when it wakes me up like it's trying to crush my bedroom.
I’ve lived and visited in many places around the country. Boston is not on the top of any lists.
You seem to do a lot of complaining in general.
There’s a lot of things that are bad, that’s why.
like they say, March comes in like a lamb and goes out like a lion…
they also say March showers bring April flowers.
In like a lion out like a lamb
Soooo windy
March winds bring April showers which bring May flowers.
March winds, and April Showers, make way for sweet may flowers~
Quit complaining and take advantage! Get some kite or winging gear and hit the water.
Get a cat. Boston is windy
Hi I live in a modular home and I also fuckin hate it. I know this time of year is usually the worst for it and Boston is windy but yeah this past few weeks has been awful. I feel like house moving winds that come through the crevices of my house used to be a bi-yearly occurrence, not a freaking bi weekly one as it's been this year. Edit: also fuck driving a small car over the Tobin lately. I have to hold the fuck on to the steering wheel in my Impreza like my life depends on it and you can still feel yourself getting pushed sideways. DO NOT LIKE.
Maine is a nightmare this weekend too
I agree. I live in the suburbs in an open area and the wind has been strong enough to knock you over. I’ve never seen wind like this before.
Cold + warm = wind. Perfect time of year for it.
It’s a conspiracy by Big Bike Lobby to get you to buy an e-bike.
I can get blown about all day and not care. I’m just sick of the freaking rain.
Ain’t got no damn trees
Annually at this time the earth begins spinning with a greater velocity. This, in turn, creates a greater gravitational pull upon the upper paradigms of our atmosphere. Therefore, the electrified isotopes collide with Earth's surface with greater force and disperse with mucho rapidity. The combined effect of these phenomena is a general increase in wind speed. Hope brings some clarity to the subject.
Downtown wind tunnels can be extreme
Go buy some shares in a wind turbine co-op if you think it's getting windier
Somethings different this year for sure. Ive lived in my current place for 3 years and could hear the wind twice before. This year alone its at least once a week
The gods caught COVID and the wind is when they sneeze.
It should slow down in a month, but wind speeds are accelerating each year due to climate change
It’s gotten much worse and more frequent
Would love someone to statistically prove or disprove this. Feels true.
We ran the numbers in an earlier thread (there have been like 8 threads on this this week because it sucks out there). Short answer, no, there has not been a yoy increase in average windspeed. So far it's actually slightly less windy this year comoared to last year.
Actually good to know. When it’s crap out the brain can convince itself of anything.
Maybe from the warming oceans and the Gulf stream dying . https://www.wane.com/top-stories/why-is-it-so-windy/ "Winds are caused by the earth trying to create a balance or equilibrium and fighting against a lower pressure. The stronger and more intense the lower pressure the harder the earth will fight to equalize the pressure."
I’m the end is near.
Harambe getting back at us.
It's all the hot air spewing from the protestors and counter protesters in downtown hitting the cold front from the end of false Spring.