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Originally Posted by Arrdeeharharharbour
I've heard wind mentioned many times over the years in relation to tall buildings in Halifax and how windy it is here. However, stats don't back this up. Halifax is not as windy or as often windy as cities in many other parts of Canada. Look to the great lakes, praries and Newfoundland for the windiest cities in the country. Kelowna is the least windiest city in Canada which seems strange to me given its location in the mountians.
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Interesting info, thanks for sharing your perspective.
My impression from living here all my life is that it is regularly windy, especially near the coast where you have the effects of the sun heating up the land during the day causing the warm air to rise and be displaced by cool ocean air, and the reverse happening in the evening (depending on the time of year and the relative temperatures of the land and water). On top of that you have the usual track of storms coming up the eastern seaboard, or coming from the west, depending on jet stream, etc. And, of course wind patterns change with the seasons, like everywhere else in Canada (and most of the world).
We all know having winds gusting to 70 km/h is a regular occurrence that nobody much pays attention to, but I don't know how that stacks up to other parts of the country, as I have visited most of the country, but not lived there.
Kelowna is a bit of a mystery to me, as I stayed there for a week during the summer a few years back but don't recall any windy days (there was lots of forest fire smoke, though, so there must have been some wind in the area). That said, one week is a small sample size, and doesn't really reveal anything.
Colin does have a point in that winds close to the ground feel less severe due to the boundary layer effect, which isn't a factor when you're 20 storeys up, but I don't see this as being unique to this particular building - so it sounds like a 'nothing' point - i.e. there's wind everywhere and it's a little worse the higher up you go, but everybody knows this. It's like saying "don't live on the top floors because you will get hit by rain before it hits the ground"... (and... what does that have to do with the amazing views you will have from the upper floors of this building?
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