Is it getting windier?

[Anonymous]

I have lived in the DC area most of my life and the last couple of years has felt so windy to me. It seems like every other day, we are getting 15 mph plus winds. I don't ever remember feeling such frequent wind. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a reason? I tried searching for this but cannot find anything.

[Anonymous]

I don't have an answer, but I agree. We have lived here for 36 years. Definitely more wind.

[Anonymous]

I live in the south. This year, I am consistently thinking, ‘it is SUCH a windy year.’ Almost every day.

I have lived in Oklahoma where the wind blows at a constant. This is not the same.

Right now in the south, it has felt gusty every day.

[Anonymous]

Yes and more cloudy too. Our winters here are usually sunny and mild. The past two winters have been so much more cloudy too and this one so cold. The weather here has changed dramatically. This has been confirmed by a local tv news meteorologist I contacted about it.

[Anonymous]

I lived in Scotland as a child and loved the wind. Wind over there happens 24/7. As a result, the landscape has adjusted to it - there aren't a lot of very tall trees with shallow roots, for example. Occasionally there are violent tempests that throw chimneys on the ground, pull cars off the road, etc.

Here, there's a lot LESS wind, but it's MORE dangerous, because vegetation is not adapted to it. We need to trim our trees regularly (we've had large branches fall in our yard and roof) and I'm always careful if I'm on the road in high winds.

Please trim your trees.

[Anonymous]

I felt this way a few years ago but not I think it was just me going through a shift in life and noticing it more. We moved to a house that gets more wind exposure and during the windy "season" (roughly February through April), I was just so stressed about the wind for about 5 years. Like to the point where I wanted to move because the wind seemed so bad. I remember a lot of sleepless nights, especially when my kid was a baby, worrying about the wind and feeling like it was just going to knock our house over.

Then I don't know what happened. The house settled. My kid got older. It still gets windy but it's not stressful. I don't know if I just got used to how our house creeks in the wind or if it actually creeks less, or if getting out of baby years and into my 40s led to a shift in hormones that made me less stress/reactive. No idea, but now the last three years, the wind doesn't seem so bad and doesn't bother me.

I was so convinced for those few years that this was a huge change due to global warming, that DC was just getting way more wind, that it was a huge problem. And now it seems fine, I notice the spring winds but it's not a big deal. A couple times a year there will be a big storm, usually linked to a coastal hurricane, and I worry about trees or big branches coming down (and that I do think is a result of climate change) but other than that I'm back to normal.

So this is not be trying to gaslight you, but is there anything that might be causing you to just feel more stressed about wind lately? For me the wind anxiety was about me, not the wind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I felt this way a few years ago but not I think it was just me going through a shift in life and noticing it more. We moved to a house that gets more wind exposure and during the windy "season" (roughly February through April), I was just so stressed about the wind for about 5 years. Like to the point where I wanted to move because the wind seemed so bad. I remember a lot of sleepless nights, especially when my kid was a baby, worrying about the wind and feeling like it was just going to knock our house over.

Then I don't know what happened. The house settled. My kid got older. It still gets windy but it's not stressful. I don't know if I just got used to how our house creeks in the wind or if it actually creeks less, or if getting out of baby years and into my 40s led to a shift in hormones that made me less stress/reactive. No idea, but now the last three years, the wind doesn't seem so bad and doesn't bother me.

I was so convinced for those few years that this was a huge change due to global warming, that DC was just getting way more wind, that it was a huge problem. And now it seems fine, I notice the spring winds but it's not a big deal. A couple times a year there will be a big storm, usually linked to a coastal hurricane, and I worry about trees or big branches coming down (and that I do think is a result of climate change) but other than that I'm back to normal.

So this is not be trying to gaslight you, but is there anything that might be causing you to just feel more stressed about wind lately? For me the wind anxiety was about me, not the wind.

It's great you were able to develop this perspective on yourself, PP. Hopefully others do the same (not just for wind, but for various ills). It took me a long time to recognize I had a high level of anxiety as my normal baseline. For me it's directed to my health.

[Anonymous]

No, you are just focusing on it for whatever reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need to trim our trees regularly (we've had large branches fall in our yard and roof) and I'm always careful if I'm on the road in high winds.

Please trim your trees.

This is always good advice.

[Anonymous]

CWG literally said its been windier this year than normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CWG literally said its been windier this year than normal.

There's no such thing as "normal" in weather. There are "averages" that can be extrapolated from data, but variances are what weather is all about.

[Anonymous]

Global Blowing 💨

[Anonymous]

Yes, it has indeed been windier.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/04/08/why-so-windy-spring-tornadoes/

[Anonymous]

Its so miserable.

[Anonymous]

I love 💕 how ALL the local meteorologists are pretending like this ist happening. Even lying about it. I don't trust them and they don't even do their jobs anymore.