Winds often accompany a low pressure system, at least in our area. The animals, as well as some humans, seem to sense the impending weather change for the worse. Perhaps that is why you tend to have anxiety in windy situations.

We are in a blizzard right now. I just took the new pup out for an hour, because it's in the 30s but the wind has to be 50 MPH. Stinging snow! He loved it though. I did post a picture of my hair on the other thread, too.

Thanks Idstarr...I never thought about it that way. Good food for thought :)

The high winds gusts are what gets to me, making my wind chimes bang and clang like crazy, our big trees swaying like crazy makes me fear losing power, and that wind just seems to suck the heat right out of the house. For those of us with breathing problems, that wind in the face makes breathing very difficult and I fear getting knocked over.

Wind gusts up to 35MPH + here today.

But no snow or ice. Just cold.

They don't cause me anxiety, unless accompanied by a thunderstorm.

I work in a wind tunnel where I teach. Few trees. Concrete buildings. One day I almost got slammed into a building. I laugh when people especially those with office jobs tell me I have got a cushy job. There are many deep reasons why it is not cushy but I always respond: I have to go outside. Yes. Between buildings. Doing that in the polar vortex was lovely. And in 100 degree heat.

Yes, I hate them as it always means there will be small branches/twigs down all over the yard, and it blows my hair all over the place. Probably hate wind from too many years growing up in KS!

Scares me especially at night. I imagine the tall old maple tree crashing down. Plus I live in an old house so lots of noises and bumps and groans.

I am gonna be the weird one here, I guess. I love the wind. I like wind blowing in my face and pulling my hair backwards. It feels invigorating; as if there is more oxygen. I love convertibles and fast boats too. Whooo-Hooo!

Windy days don't cause anxiety for me, but they do make me feel stressed and annoyed. I get frustrated trying to do anything outside, keep track of a waste bucket and the waste/clippings/debris that should go into it and not across the garden in a whoosh. Or fighting to keep a hat on, my hair out of my mouth. Make myself heard - I don't think DH hears as well as he used to. So crabby maybe, not particularly anxious and I have had the experience of a tree laying across my house ;0)

Now dense fog....that makes me feel anxious, and oppressed.

Last Feb 10, 2017, we had wind speeds of 101 miles per hour. A record. The barbecue grill blew over, travelled around the corner of the house, on it's side. The porch swing was on it's side. The foot of the swing hit the faucet, turned the water on, flooded the patio. I called DH at work, he came home. He kept the swing from crashing through the wall of windows, flipped it around and tied it down. Birds were thrown against the house. I rescued a magpie & tucked him behind a bush until he recovered.

Semi's on the highway blew over. link with live visual

I don’t like hearing the wind roar at night either, when we can’t see what is going on outside. When I am finally having a good hair day and then have to go outside in the wind and rain....No!! That’s totally selfish & self-centered of me.

Like Elizabeth, i love windy days, except in winter when wind just makes you feel colder. There are times when I wish for the wind to die down, like when I'm trying to rake or burn. On a humid summer day, there's nothing better than wind blowing on your hot, sweaty body. :)

Pennydesign, I’m right there with you, makes me anxious, just does. The gusts can sound like big roars, it’s noisy, and just makes me stressed. If I could turn off my response to it, I would.

I don't do yard work when it's windy. We always lose some smallish branches in wind and I'd hate to be right there when one came down. Big grass fires in Parker County, that's just to the west of my area. They just reopened I-20 a half hour ago. Hubby's commute will be tedious.

Like ElizabethA, I like the wind as well :-)) I also find it invigorating (I like convertibles and fast boats also!!). But there is a limit.......I don't care for serious windstorms or very high winds. Situations that could cause damage. But a good stiff breeze, like the wind that comes off of the Sound or at the ocean in the normal course of events, count me in!

I hate fishing on windy days. Wind knots in the braided line can become a nightmare in minutes, pretty much spoiling the day. It's also hard to precision cast, often ending up in a low tree branch you wanted to land below to entice a lunker bass.

Of course this one advantage to fishing on a windy day. Most of the baitfish are pushed to the opposite shoreline, and that's where the predator bass will be feeding.

Lol! Brushworks. I don't fish on windy days. It's when the river whitecaps and it's not safe in a small boat and the fish don't bite as well.

I'm not overly fond of windy days, but I'm ok with it. When I lived out west, it would be howling wind for days and dust storms. I had heard more people committed suicide during those winds. There is something to it that sets some people on edge. I found the dust storms fascinating. We got caught in one once when we were out walking. It's nature's way of sandblasting. 8(

Wind gives me a headache. Does it do that to anyone else?

Absolutely matthias. Might be stress or a difference in the air pressure. I have to take an Advil with a decongestant to shift it at all.

Hate, hate, hate the wind. Living in LA, we often get Santa Ana's and the ensuing power outages. Usually immediately after I've bought a truckload of refrigerated/frozen foodstuffs. Our neighbor has a enormously tall palm tree that sways dangerously during these times. I always fear that one day it will crash right into our windows.

I truly appreciate the unease that some of us feel during a period of heavy wind. As a tree expert, however, I can assure you that trees not only like to be buffeted by a stiff wind, but they need it. Some species are engineered to thrive in high winds.....they need the exercise!

The best example of a wind resistant tree is a palm. Their entire physiology is designed to make them hurricane resistant, from their roots to their interior vascular system.

When a woody tree is growing, heavy winds will help it develop a strong and resilient infrastructure and root system. Swaying and swirling in strong winds is the best exercise possible for healthy trees.

Yes, there are innately brittle species, old individuals, insect or disease weakened trees, all of which are vulnerable to structural failure.

Anyway, sorry for going off topic! Can't help myself when it comes to trees. I love the wind, it energizes me.

Wow! Thanks for sharing your knowledge about trees.

I love windy days...with moderation of course. Not hurricane force, though even in some heavy storms I find it most exciting. But a good windy day in March makes me feel wonderful...blows the cobwebs out of the brain. And sometimes the powerful winds that will precede a thunderstorm and watching the cloud formations whip around just thrill me.

We live in a river valley, and I can remember many stormy winter nights when I was growing up, hearing the wind whip through the trees on the hills, and yet our house was fairly protected from the worst of the gusts. Always felt so safe by that, knowing we were sheltered.

rhizo, I never knew that about trees either...though I have certainly seen many blow over even in the woods. I'm always amazed at how little the root base is given how high the trees are...amazing they can stand at all.

I hate the really windy days also. I can't go out and play. If I'm at work and need to be coming and going, I am guaranteed to have sneezing fits (we get lots of blowing dust). Driving down the highway sometimes the car gets tossed around. I hate it.

Go figure, we are supposed to have gusts up to 45 later on today (its currently raining ice).

Rhizo, that’s interesting.. The neighbor has the only four palm trees on our block and the “leaves” (?) and branches are a real and present danger to living and non living things when they fly off-even denting my car on a few occasions. I’m always worried that one will land on us or the dog.

I have almost a primal hatred of wind too. I used to be a runner and hated running in a strong wind. Can't really explain why I hate it either. I do hate the way it makes my hair swirl - maybe that's it. Ha ha.

As a sailor I kind of enjoy the wind, even if I'm not sailing.

I love the sound made by acres of quaking aspens. My favorite park has acres of them and not until today did I know they grow in colonies, root bound to one another. Amazing.

Quaking aspens? I've never had the privilege of hearing that sound but i am basking in the memories of bamboo music. :)

Aspens quaking.

Aspens quaking

Yes, I love quaking ashen too. I love the wind rustling leaves. To hear and to look at. Such an awesome force.

We had nice Trades on Maui, but a couple of days ago they slowed. This means nice beach weather in the a.m., but a strong north wind picks up about noon -- real, sandblasting wind -- gusts that blow your car around on the hills.

I cannot tolerate dust. Like cooper8828, I start to sneeze, endlessly, until I take actifed. I used to love the wind before sinus problems began in my late thirties.

OTOH, the weather I dislike most is total stillness. It's as though the earth stopped.

I hate wind! Whenever I am in wind, I get headaches and congestion! No one seems to believe me, but I do...a sinus problem happens, followed by bronchitis. I even shut off all vents in my car so no wind hits my face.

For those who love wind...come to Kansas...we always have some to share!

I am finding (because this discussion has given me some other ways to really think about it) that I can't be objective about it. It goes deeper than worry or discomfort. (I do also get the headache thing, though...it's awful. And I am stubborn enough to insist that cold air blowing on me gives me a cold...And I'm not budging on this totally unscientific stance!)

Thanks for letting me share my weirdness, all :)

Not a fan of wind. I just came back from a very windy walk and although the temp said 50, it felt like 30. On the way home I thought the wind would blow us there without us moving.

I love windy days, I just don't like the sideways rain that comes with it in my area.

WIndy (but not cold and rainy), I find energizing -- love to be out in it! Today I went for a walk, the wind was brisk but cold with spurts of fine precipitation -- a little too cold, although I always feel better after going outside, especially if I have a headache (and I am one who gets headaches with weather fronts moving through).

I was enjoying my bike ride in the brisk breeze (at ground level) as Hurricane Ike approached central Ohio -- but when tree branches started falling in the street I realized I had better head home!