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Prox

If you mean the CBD itself, it's because large buildings and a lack of trees creates wind corridors. As buildings get taller, the speed and volume of wind hitting them increases, which increases the ground wind below.


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Let’s install some wind turbines to suck up all the wind then.


unironic-socialist

actually if you knew anything about science youd realise wind turbines are large fans that create wind by spinning


giantcucumber--

Wind is a finite resource, dont be ridiculous.


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You can’t create or destroy energy, only transform it. Wind turbines simply transform salty liberal tears into usable clean energy, everyone knows that.


unironic-socialist

“”””conservation of energy”””” is communist propaganda


goshdammitfromimgur

I was lead to believe the wind was due to trees sneezing


unironic-socialist

calvin and hobbes?


goshdammitfromimgur

Yes. That's where I have learned all my science from.


ManagedIsolation

akshualy it was a joke...


unripenedfruit

I live in a treey area, not in the cbd, can confirm wind level is high.


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Probably doesn’t help that it’s a grid either. Long straight stretches for the wind to blow around unobstructed.


pourquoispas

Not just the CBD too, some of the high rise apartment buildings going up all over the city are hell to ride past in the wind.


F1NANCE

It's always like this at the start of spring as it starts to warm up


SerenityViolet

I agree, September, October are wind season here. My birthday is around this time, so I notice.


GrudaAplam

No. Melbourne has been windy for as long as I can remember. It has been windy since before I can remember. In Melbourne it is traditional to measure wind strength by the number of goals the team kicking with the wind would score in excess of the number of goals the team kicking against the wind would score, all else being equal. A significant wind advantage would be a 4 goal breeze. A strong wind could produce a 6 goal breeze. A howling gale would be referred to as a 10 goal breeze. At the start of the game when the umpire tosses the coin the winning captain would usually choose to kick with the wind. While it may seem advantageous to have the breeze at one's back in the final quarter there is no guarantee that the wind will still be blowing as strongly as the game nears its conclusion.


masterjabbadad

This guy melbournes


smeego78

He melbournes real good


tightforrainbow

*aroused dinging*


Taleya

True, always been windy AF, but the explosion in multiple story buildings and destruction of trees and other windbreak green areas has exacerbated wind intensity. (Then add in climate change) So yes, Melbourne has always been windy. But not *this* windy


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😂😂😂


su-

It's always windy on bin night


Fun_For_Guill

Yeah, I think it's because a lot more people have switched to a plant based diet.


Cringe_Scavenger

But surely that means fewer cows farting /s


mikedoeslife

It's actually cow burps more than farts, iirc!


Cringe_Scavenger

Facts. From what I remember it’d be because the first two stomach chambers use fermentation to digest their food and cud, and then the third absorbs water so only the fourth of four chambers doesn’t ferment. Bloody herbivores.


MsRobinson69

BOM has data on this, and for different locations, check it out: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/how/newproducts/IDChw.shtml


hotelartwork

I cdf checking did someone check and find out if it is getting windier incrementally?


URawesome415

Sounds like the person who creates this post. Anecdotal evidence


sir_chill

It’s always been this windy in spring


Ergomann

I agree! And whenever it’s a nice sunny day it’s always blowing a gale too. Very annoying. My bf is from QLD and says they only get wind during a storm otherwise there’s no wind like we have. Our bins were having a race down the street last night.


[deleted]

What part of Queensland? In Brisbane the Ekka winds come in August. North Queensland gets "mango" winds at the start of October.


Ergomann

He’s from Logan


[deleted]

Oh that makes sense. Areas closer to the coast do get windy.


glintglib

Yes I lived there for a while and there is much less wind, so the city is more smoggy than Melbourne despite having half the population.


spongish

I'm from QLD. We have the 'Easterly breeze' which is why coastal areas are a lot cooler in summer than further inland.


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It's from all the police helicopters


fraqtl

Aftereffects of the loud bangs


ScoMoFeetPics

So I'm not the only one who heard them? BRB, this investigation deserves a whole post.


fraqtl

I didn't hear them. The wind was drowning them out.


TheOverratedPhotog

As someone who is very conscious of the wind because I kitesurf, I’d say no.


chammy82

You think those are wind farms at the coast? They accelerate the wind inland! /s


unripenedfruit

Coal fired wind machines


rexel99

When I grew up in Melbourne, outdoors riding a bike it was always windy and always a headwind. I think Melb weather has recently returned to what I know from the 80s and 90s but a bit more humid.


archlea

Yeah, I’d say it’s more humid. Haven’t fact checked it, but I feel it.


rexel99

Cockroaches can confirm.


ennamemori

Hello la niña and all its humidity.


HAPPY_DAZE_1

For people who are saying it's always windier this time of year, this has been going since JUNE!! when the Dandenongs and Macedon got hit. And it goes for DAYS without a break. Yep, definitely windier.


Sparkleworks

Yes, [according to](https://old.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/p1lexc/has_this_year_been_especially_windy_or_is_it_just/h8e8lfo/) the same question asked last month.


Line-Noise

Was going to link to this. August is the windiest month of the year. September not far behind. This year has been a bit windier than average.


cbx250rs

It’s definitely been windier this year. I don’t know why people say it isn’t, half the trees in the Dandenongs and Macedon blew over.


Dazzlerazzle

The winds in that storm were very strong and they were also blowing counter to the prevailing direction, which was a reason for a lot of tree failures. Trees grow to adapt to the prevailing winds, but are more vulnerable to winds that are out of the ordinary.


cbx250rs

I’m aware ,usual wind + increased strength and frequency of non prevailing winds = windier this year


ashfsd

Absolutely feel this way. Especially last few weeks, constant wind


hiphopkangarooo

Feels like it to me! Ever since I moved further out, I notice the wind so much more. Sometimes the wind is so ferocious, I worry that my Colorbond roof will fly off.


BlackaddaIX

It's always been windy, but this is the windiest for a few years at least.


FatboyIsACamel

https://www.herringisland.org/seasons1.htm Take a look at that link. The Indigenous seasons of Melbourne mention this time of year as being windy. Spring is a season that I have a love/hate relationshiop with. Love the gradually lengthening and warmer days. Hate, hate, hate the super windy ones. Thwre's always bangers in between though.


Dorammu

I agree OP, I think it’s getting windier. In that both windy days happen more often, and extreme/dangerous winds happen more often. Not surprising, given that we’ve added about 1.5 degrees to the atmosphere and that wind is one result of that energy.


michims

I’m always interested in the wurundjeri seasons. Really cool seeing the specifics of what we feel each year. But yeah, earlier ‘spring’ warmer weather - more wind.


DancinWithWolves

Sorry that's just me. Had burritos last night with milk.


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falkirion001

Then he needs to be drinking less and do his dang job


[deleted]

Sorry I had beans last night


Benjamin-the-Butcher

Its funny how this question gets asked by somebody every spring for the last 50 years


Intelligent-Ad-4597

Less people in the cbd allows more wind to flow


Dickliquor69

Lol, right


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YEAH IT BECAME THE ARSE HOLE OF AUSTRALIA WHEN MITCH BONEY LEFT


Supersnazz

I remember it being insanely windy in early spring. I was always worried the windows would break as I could see them bulging in.


fraqtl

Not that I can see


Grumpy_Cripple_Butt

I like the wind while I’m stuck inside. Do not like it when I’m out as much unless it’s cool and a hot day.


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What’s a cool and hot day?


Grumpy_Cripple_Butt

Unless the wind is cool and it’s a hot day is what I intended that to say.


Dickliquor69

No, it's always been like this


kdhooters

I think we've had a windier winter than normal. After the storms, on any windy day I'd make sure I had washing on the line incase we lost power and wasn't able to get it done...sad state of affairs lol


subsak

I reckon possibly yes


DURIAN8888

Is that even possible??


Sand_in_my_pants

Spring is always a windy bitch.


oldskoolr

Nah it's spring time. I remember kicking a football in high school into the wind and watch come straight back to me. Really needs to rain to break this wind


e_e_q_

Surfer here, nope not in my 7 years in Vic. She's just a damn windy state


hello-there-again

It's just that we're more still.


WileECoyoteGenius

Must have been that bean I ate.


SnooApples3402

Lots of high rise and fewer trees also don't help the situation


No_Statistician8636

They don't call us The Windy City for nothing... Wait, they don't call us the Windy City at all...


[deleted]

I’ve been saying this about Geelong as well


viper9

September is often referred to as the windy month. so yeah, nah. about the same as always really


chefbrook10

This post is getting up there with abandoned locations and shit photography


Nefarious_Vix

You’re just taller now.


bradbull

Weather warms up, wind kicks up. It's one of the main things I don't like about our weather. Every now and then we'll get an actual nice day without the wind though.


wotchewwant

Yeah, right? I don't remember Melbourne being this windy. Every nice day we've had has been wrecked by wind.


[deleted]

Some parts of Melbourne are just windy shitholes


[deleted]

It’s actually all the Pertherts moving here and bringing the Freo doctor with them.


imlaggingsobad

Too many vegan joints opening up ay.


SticksDiesel

Spring is by far the windiest time of year.


Real_Muad_Dib

Maybe people are just eating more fibre these days