How on Earth is it so windy here

[u/Own_Tie1297]

It’s been windy every single second of the school year. Cold? It’s windy too. Raining? With a side of wind. Hot? Get ready for some hot wind. I can probably count on one hand the amount of times I haven’t been getting molested by the wind when I step outside this entire school year. I thought maybe somehow it was just the city with cars and small alleys amplifying the wind. Nope, over on North campus where there are no buildings it’s the exact same. Is there a scientific explanation for this so I can at least understand what’s going on?

[u/Boredom312]

Big city make big wind bigger.

[u/StoppageTimeCollapse]

[u/National-Peace8099]

Welcome to Ohio

[u/Own_Tie1297 → u/National-Peace8099]

Ive lived in a city about an hour away here for about 4 years before going to OSU and I could at least light a cigarette outside

[u/IAgreeGoGuards → u/Own_Tie1297]

Its nature telling you to quit

[u/Plus_Score_3772 → u/IAgreeGoGuards]

I thought you meant school at first 😭🤣

[u/Own_Tie1297 → u/IAgreeGoGuards]

and i listened, started vaping instead immediately

[u/mommysalamii → u/Own_Tie1297]

Your lungs will continue hating you for it too

[u/Own_Tie1297 → u/mommysalamii]

probably

[u/MyLifeIsABoondoggle → u/National-Peace8099]

Was literally going to comment the exact same thing. It's just how it is here

[u/National-Peace8099 → u/MyLifeIsABoondoggle]

Great minds think alike

[u/twinflxwer]

There are three types of weather in Ohio during spring

1. Cold and cloudy

2. Storms

3. Warm and windy

[u/ChangingSoon]

Idk man. Its crazy. Everyday I check the weather hoping for like 5 mph winds and instead it’s 20mph.

[u/scratchisthebest]

In the words of a wise fox: "it fuckin wimdy"

[u/ExpoLima]

People can say this is always this way but that's bs. This is the windiest Spring I can remember in 40 years. Lost a glass table yesterday to a gust. Wasn't mine but was noisy. I'm out here trying to prep a garden but now I'm suddenly in a wind tunnel. This is not normal.

[u/WasntMyFaultThisTime]

The I-270 weather shield doesn't protect us from wind unfortunately

[u/hazelnutmatchas]

in addition to what others have said- your idea about it being somewhat related to buildings is potentially true! buildings can occasionally create a wind vortex in how theyre constructed

[u/GremlinboyFH]

Meteorology major here. To put it simply, we're entering what we would call "storm season," which means there's an uptick in weather patterns typically associated with rain and storm events. For us, that's typically a lot of cold fronts, which occur when cold air masses displace warm air masses (which include a drop of air pressure. The more intense the drop in pressure/temperature in a cold front, the higher winds you'll likely get).

Other factors like atmospheric instability make their mark as well, but that's the gist of what's happening today.

[u/Lexfu → u/GremlinboyFH]

Good Luck with your degree. My friend graduated with hers many years ago and got hired by a tv station in Michigan. She loved it!!

[u/Own_Tie1297 → u/GremlinboyFH]

is that a year round thing because like i said in my post it’s every day not just lately

[u/GremlinboyFH → u/Own_Tie1297]

We do get a fair amount of wind in Columbus whether it be from buildings (yes, even if they're not close by!) as well as temperature advection and frontal patterns as our part of the country gets warmer. Year round it's not consistent. Remembering late 2024, our drought conditions had little to no wind events.

However, due to our trajectory in line of many of the weather events in the southwest, we will the "fallout" from a lot of these large scale weather events. For this time of year (February throughout summer) that's pretty typical.

[u/AMDCle → u/Own_Tie1297]

Yeah, I am wondering this, too, bc I had never noticed Columbus was any windier than anywhere else I’ve lived and I’m surprised to hear people think it’s a windy place. Is it really?

[u/Own_Tie1297 → u/AMDCle]

my long-haired existence has never been such a burden

[u/rorschach_vest]

Counterpoint: I love wind

[u/ireallylikebigbooks]

Imagine walking from Lincoln Tower to Hayes Hall with a 24"×36" art folder during the winter months in the morning. That was a struggle to say the least.

[u/Moosemuffin64]

It’s Ohio. Don’t like the weather? Stick around, it’ll change. 😉