windy?, Ill show you windy.

Hi all,

If you want to check out a place that always has wind.
http://www.mountwashington.org/cam/index.html

Would be interested in other places people know that always have wind. Preferably with a web site that can show the weather conditions so that I can at least know that somewhere somebody can fly a kite.

Southern Alberta, Canada, around the town of Pincher Creek, where they have The Children Of The Wind Kite Festival in July, is *famous* for it's wind. I don't have a link, but someone was telling me that statistically they have a _very_ large number of days-per-year-of wind, which makes the area popular for wind-related activities, and has a *global* reputation for it's wind... which _averages_ quite *high*, I might add... let me guess, up around 25 -40 MPH, somewhere.

The Puppet Kite Kid

RE/

The gorge of the Columbia river: Hood River, The Dalles, and so-forth.

IS CHICAGO THE WINDIEST CITY? Chicago is nicknamed the 'Windy City' but not because of its wind speeds. The windiest city in the U.S. is Blue Hill, Massachusetts which has an average wind speed of 15.4 miles per hour.Chicago's average wind speed is 10.3 miles per hour. The nickname originated in an editorial of the now defunct New York Sun when Chicago and New York City were competing to host the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, wrote an editorial telling New Yorkers to pay no attention to the 'nonsensical claims of that windy city. Its people could not hold a world's fair even if they won it.'

Click here to see more nicknames for Chicago.

SOURCES: Chicago Tribune, 8 June 1970, sA p1. Williams, Jack. The USA Today Weather Almanac. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Last Updated: 4/99

Hi all, Yes I am a little bored. But until the temperature goes down below 100 http://www.aws.com/KXAN/wx.asp?id=KXANT after the sun starts to set I am checking out the web for windy places in the world. Mainly the US since that is what popped up in Yahoo. Mostly stupid trivia but the antarctica site has live info(antdiv.gov)
http://bfn.org/~af482/snownonsense.html
http://aphrodite.souda.navy.mil/nemod/diduno.htm
http://www.startext.net/travel/texas/outdoors.htm
http://www.antdiv.gov.au/stations/casey/casey_aws.html
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/askjack/wawind.htm
http://www.winzurf.co.nz/windsurf/wgtnz/wgtnz28.htm
http://www.hs.hsps.k12.mi.us/cdrom/cdrom/wsja/text/ ch08/tables/lv071.htm
http://media.lethbridgec.ab.ca/archka/hometown/
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/energy/wind.html
http://www.easinetaustraliasia.com/ liveaus_wa_leisure.htm
http://www.wnywindsurf.com/bandwidth/articles/ windy.html

Looks like I am going to have to start checking out Perth.