How to Describe a WINDY Day in English! 🌬️🍃

(wind blowing)

Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson

where I'm going to help you learn

how to describe a windy day in English.

It certainly is windy out here today in Ontario, Canada

and I thought this would be a great day

to do a lesson just like this one.

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Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson

about how to talk about a windy day in English.

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Well, it certainly is a windy day.

So let's start with the basics.

When it's windy, you say, "It's windy outside,"

or you say, "It's a windy day."

Those are the basic phrases that we would use

to describe a day when the wind is blowing like this.

It's certainly more than a breeze today.

A breeze is a nice, gentle wind.

That's very pleasant and it's nice when there's a breeze

on a hot summer day.

But right now it's so windy

that I needed to get out of the wind.

I'm actually sitting in a place right now beside my shed

so that the wind can't hit me.

So I needed to get out of the wind

because it's definitely more than a breeze.

Even though we have high winds today, though,

I wouldn't call this a windstorm.

I don't expect there to be any wind damage later today.

It's simply a really, really windy day.

If it was a windstorm, the wind would be so strong

that it would cause damage to buildings

or it might even make trees fall over or topple over.

If we see wind damage from the wind,

it's usually because we've had a windstorm,

a time when the wind is so strong

that it causes lots of damage.

Here in Ontario, Canada,

we measure wind speed in kilometers per hour.

I'm guessing that the wind

is blowing at about 30 or 40 kilometers per hour right now

but let's look at the weather forecast.

The weather forecast for today says this,

"Wind southwest 30 kilometers per hour

gusting to 70 kilometers per hour."

A 30 kilometer per hour wind isn't too bad.

At 70 kilometers per hour,

things start to move quite a bit in the wind.

If the wind speed was over 100 kilometers per hour,

we would start to see wind damage

and we would probably call it a windstorm.

But there were two other things I wanted to mention

about this weather forecast.

When the wind is southwest,

it means it's coming from the southwest.

When we say that the wind is gusting

to 70 kilometers per hour, it means that the wind

is a fairly constant 30 kilometers per hour.

But every once in a while,

the wind goes fast for a little bit.

It goes faster, up to 70 kilometers per hour.

Wind gusts are what can really do damage.

In fact, my camera almost fell over earlier

because there was a gust of wind

when I was out by the wheat field.

That was a little scary.

When we talk about wind direction,

we of course use north, east, south, and west,

but we also use the words northerly, easterly,

southerly, and westerly.

So in the winter, we have a lot of north winds.

We have a lot of northerly winds.

We have a lot of winds that come from the north

and that's one of the reasons why Canada is so cold.

So when we talk about the direction of the wind,

when you read it in a weather forecast,

they're talking about where the wind is coming from.

So today when it says that the wind is southwest,

it means the wind is coming from the southwest.

And definitely in the winter, when the north wind blows,

when we have a northerly wind, it is extremely cold here.

One thing I like to do on a windy day

is I like to watch the trees sway in the wind.

In English, the verb sway means

to kind of move back and forth in a gentle way.

Certainly on a windy day,

we see a lot of trees swaying in the wind.

One of the things I don't like about a windy day,

especially a windy night, is when the wind whistles.

When the wind is very, very strong,

sometimes you can hear the wind whistle

and that could make it really hard to sleep at night.

I certainly don't like it when the wind is strong at night

and you can hear the wind whistling.

Another thing interesting about the wind

is that when you walk into the wind,

when you are walking into a headwind,

it's very, very difficult to walk.

When you ride a bicycle into the wind, into a headwind,

a wind that's coming towards you,

it's very, very difficult to pedal.

But when you are walking with the wind,

when you have the wind at your back,

sometimes you go a lot faster and it's a lot easier.

Certainly, when you are on a bicycle

and you have a wind at your back

or when the wind is at your back, when you have a tailwind,

it's a lot easier to pedal when you're going down the road.

Well thank you for watching this English lesson

on how to describe a windy day in English.

I certainly hope the wind dies down later.

That's the last phrase I wanted to teach you.

On a windy day, at some point, the wind will die down.

The wind will blow a little more softly,

a little more slowly,

and it will just become a lot easier to do things outside

like make English lessons.

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