I raced aganist a boat from Lake Dillon, CO named "Small Flying Patio Furniture"...musta been a neighbor!

Not to dispute your point: that it is windy in Colorado Springs today, but to forestall any misunderstandings.

Q: What is the windiest city in the USA?

A: According to the National Climatic Data Center's list of annual average wind speeds, the windiest U.S. city is Dodge City, Kansas, with an average speed of 13.9 mph. Other windy cities include Amarillo, Texas (13.5 mph) and Rochester, Minn. (13.1 mph.). The windiest "big" cities are New York City (LaGuardia Airport) and Oklahoma City, which both have an average annual wind speed of 12.2 mph.

The "windy city" of Chicago isn't as high on the list as you might think. It's average annual wind speed is 10.3 mph.

and I ask you, just where is FEMA?

Yeah, I don't recall Baltimore being windy much at all. Unless you're actually out in the Bay, that is.

That's an amazing view. Your backyard?

I don't think we've gotten up to 60MPH today, but it's gusting near 30-40 in Denver. A shame, too, because from the office window it actually looks deceptively nice outside.

FYI - There is some dispute as the originations of the term "windy city" in describing Chicago.

I have always heard that it has nothing to do with weather and everything to do with long boastful speeches given by our beloved politicians. Living here my whole life, that seems very plausible.

I lost a shutter, and most of the back fence, and the dog nearly blew away. She's a dobe, but her uncropped ears were doing the dumbo thing this morning.

What kind of pine tree is that?

The wind blows some in the Great Basin, too, especially in early spring.

Umm, wow.

Please tell me you have plans to fly a kite. You could unspool a 1000ft roll of string in about 6.2 seconds.

I'm also from Chicago, and think Paul is right. The term "Windy City" is supposed to have originally been an epithet from the 1800's used against Chicago by New Yorkers tired of hearing Chicago politicians boast about how much better Chicago was. I think Wikipedia mentions this (although they might dispute it).

The strongest wind I've ever felt was in Colorado Springs during Christmas several years ago. I thought my daughter's small pickup was going to be blown over.

Be careful what you ask for; you're right on the edge of the tornado belt.

Yes, it was very windy driving down I-25 this morning. My car got sandblasted pretty good and my windshield is getting pitted pretty bad.

Still, the most memorable wind-related incident I have (other than 120 MPH winds at Shemya in the Aleutians) happened last year as my wife and I were driving in northern New Mexico doing 75 MPH. It was a windy day and a boring drive. I happened to look up at the clouds and noticed the clouds were passing me. It would've been fun to have that kind of tail wind while flying (probably real turbulent, though) but it sucks being passed by a cloud while doing the speed limit.

It's the Chi-Coms man, yeah they're controlling the WX with scalar technology, yeah they did Katrina too....;)....seriously though, I have had on a couple of occassions the opportunity (misfortune?) to traverse the mountain west in large lightly loaded trucks, oh man did I dread seeing signs that read

"CAUTION: HIGH WINDS NEXT 80 MILES"

....Stephen, you truly live in Gods country. -Spin

Its the WINDY CITY becuase they have a big windbag like RICHARD DAILY running the city

Hi- Great Blog- one point tho'- Chicago became known as the Windy City in 1863- the year of the World Exposition- apparently there were so many windbags trying to make a quick buck that the moniker took n stayed.
Just thot I'd put my 2pennyworth in....