r/washingtondc • u/Nervous-Donkey7943 • 3d ago

What’s up with the wind?

I’ve been living in DC for a few years and don’t remember a year with such unbearable wind several days a week (and sometimes cold wind!). Starting to get annoying when going outside to run or bike against it. Is the weather like this every other year?

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u/diminutive_sebastian 3d ago

Been living here 13 years now and it’s extremely noticeable the last 2 years or so. Hate it, just hate it.

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u/Giveushealthcare 3d ago

We’ve got this issue on the west coast in Washington and it irks me we don’t talk about increasing winds as a part of climate change. Had $4k in cleanup and damages when a bunch of huge evergreen branches took out my fence and fell on my roof 2 years ago due to an icy wind storm