[Alberta's Child]

Southern Alberta is like that. The area east of Crowsnest Pass around Pincher Creek is supposedly one of the windiest places in North America -- which explains why they have all those giant wind turbines around there.

And Calgary is legendary for the wind -- "where every day is a 'bad hair day'."

[ErnBatavia]

And Calgary is legendary for the wind -- "where every day is a 'bad hair day'."

Ha! When we lived in Newhall, California before here, we were geographically at the edge of a wind-funnel - a mountain pass that let the high pressure from inland squeeeeeze through into the San Fernando Valley.

It was horrible - the unofficial motto for the Newhall Pass was, "the wind doesn't blow in Newhall, it sucks".