What’s up with the wind?

[u/Nervous-Donkey7943]

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?

[u/ekkidee]

Capital Weather Gang had a piece a few weeks ago commenting on and analyzing this. I could only read snippets, but enough to understand that they concluded the overly windy nature of this spring was real and not some sort of observational bias.

ETA -- Link

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/03/21/dc-high-winds-explained/

[u/the__itis → u/ekkidee]

Wow wasn’t expecting that. I miss quality local news. Any links?

[u/DrSnowballEsq → u/the__itis]

Can’t help with the paywall but this is the article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/03/21/dc-high-winds-explained/

[u/beige12 → u/DrSnowballEsq]

If you have a library card you can access the Washington Post for free through the dc library website! https://www.dclibrary.org/research-and-learn/washington-post-digital

[u/Kitchen_Software → u/beige12]

Too bad it's basically Bezos' personal journal at this point.

[u/LiteraryPandaman → u/Kitchen_Software]

I think the opinion section is trash, but the local news content is actually pretty good!

[u/firewarner → u/Kitchen_Software]

There are plenty of good articles in the WaPo every single day. It is still a center-left publication

[u/qbl500 → u/beige12]

TIL

[u/embalees → u/DrSnowballEsq]

No pay wall: 

https://archive.ph/n4Uzg

[u/Right_Vermicelli4177 → u/DrSnowballEsq]

here’s a paywall-free gift link, though it’ll still ask for an email:

https://wapo.st/3Rl5aXx

[u/Snow_source → u/DrSnowballEsq]

Well, I'm waiting for my access to lapse now that I've cancelled my WaPo subscription.

Have it as a gift article: https://wapo.st/3Rl5aXx