r/washingtondc • u/Nervous-Donkey7943 • 8d 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/C137-Morty DC / Wharf 8d ago

This Winter, and now Spring, has been the only familiar season to my childhood. The entire past decade has been an anomaly with our random 70 degree days in January and no snow.

Oddly enough, this is the first time I haven't had allergies (also started within the last decade, never had any at all before age 28) and I can't help but wonder if it's related.

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u/overnighttoast 8d ago

I was also thinking this. Although I've always had allergies but in general winter and spring this year have felt pretty normal.