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Wind turning every day commuting??

  • 23-06-2014 9:52am
    #1
    BMKN
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭


    Anyone else battling head winds into work in and home? Im travelling North West direction and it seems I have a head wind going in and it turns in evening, I have had 1 tail wind in about a month, last Fri I was bet from it.


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  • #2
    Seaswimmer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭Seaswimmer


    BMKN wrote: »
    Anyone else battling head winds into work in and home? Im travelling North West direction and it seems I have a head wind going in and it turns in evening, I have had 1 tail wind in about a month, last Fri I was bet from it.

    not sure if you are near the coast in Dublin but the winds for the last while have been from a general northerly direction however with the warm weather a fairly stiff sea breeze generally south east or east can develop in the afternoons/evenings. I travel south to north in the morning against the breeze and then even though Met Eireann may show the wind as north west I find myself battling a sea breeze often up to force 4 or 5 along the Sandymount/Merrion/Rock roads.


  • #3
    BMKN
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭BMKN


    I travel from Killiney direction in to city centre, I had a hilly route planned for Fri around Enniskerry couldnt do it as I was burned out from the week. I use Accuweather its ok, I think the N11 is the best bet as Fri was not so bad as its sheltered from coast. Glad Im not going mad then


  • #4
    Micilin Muc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    It has been mostly the opposite for me. It seems like ages since I've had a headwind!!


  • #5
    BMKN
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭BMKN


    Micilin Muc wrote: »
    It has been mostly the opposite for me. It seems like ages since I've had a headwind!!

    I envy the people going the opposite direction, I was so desperate for a tail wind I did a loop route before work so I could have one.


  • #6
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,188 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    About time so far as I am concerned - been working the other way for getting on for 5 years!!

    Having said that the wind speed is very low at present, so doesn't bother me whichever way I'm heading. I'm going faster than it so it always feels like a headwind anyway ...


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  • #7
    Micilin Muc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    BMKN wrote: »
    I envy the people going the opposite direction, I was so desperate for a tail wind I did a loop route before work so I could have one.

    "All my training was really difficult, so I went further to make it easier." :D


  • #8
    Maidhci
    Registered Users Posts: 864 ✭✭✭Maidhci


    It is due to the fact that an Azores blocking high pressure area is sitting quite close to us for the last few weeks - winds become variable, moving in a clockwise direction around high pressure areas, which account for the fact that the wind direction changes as the high pressure area moves slowly around.


  • #9
    BMKN
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭BMKN


    All I can say is finally a tail wind. Very very light one with a touch of head wind also


  • #10
    not yet
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    I passed wind today does that count, Went out yesterday Dunboyne to city centre head wind all the way, headed home after a cup of tea and..................

    Yes you guessed it fecking head wind again.


  • #11
    BMKN
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭BMKN


    Fund this yesterday pretty cool http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-359.80,49.45,2048


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  • #12
    laraghrider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 663 ✭✭✭laraghrider


    I was actually just thinking this yesterday. Cycling up the N81 one minute I had a head wind, next a tail wind, seemed a bit all over the place. Just as I passed the weather station shortly after Brittas the windmill part of it with the tail wing was spinning around in a circle.


  • #13
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I'm from Donegal and find the wind direction changes regularly on my spins. I do a 40km spin which is basically from A to B and turn round and back to A and regularly have headwinds in both directions...which is soooo annoying.


  • #14
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 20,711 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Sea breezes, it's to do with the relative temperature of the land v the sea. This temperature differential varies over the day.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • #15
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    The wind will generally change between morning and evening in coastal areas. It has to do with the difference between land and sea temperatures, how quickly they heat up and how well they retain they retain the heat.

    Edit.
    Sorry. Didn't see your post on my phone Brian.


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