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Windy city
By adamg on Tue, 06/05/2007 - 10:14pm
Chicago? Hah! Here's how windy it was in Copley Square early this evening:
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Many people think Copley
Many people think Copley Square is among the windiest places in Boston, but the top of the chart is Beacon Hill's Ashburton Place. High location, narrow street, and surrounded by tall buildings.
What's with the 1s and 2s making a difference?
1's and 2;s
Thanks for the video. It's helpful for me to see how this contraption actually looks while moving. And just to add that on Tues. nights, there's public folk-dancing in the plaza and that was just a clip from some instruction on the folk-dance that the group was working on.
Oh, cool
Thanks for posting! I also have some video from the folk-dancing folks (they were doing contra dancing at the time, hence the ones and twos); guess I better post that clip as well :-).
Copley Square blows
I've been nearly blown off the road trying to bicycle down St. James Avenue past the Hancock Tower.
Chicago's windiness is actually about boasting and hot air
Note that Chicago is called the windy city because a newspaperman thought that its residents were boasting too much, not because of strong breezes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy_City,_Origin_of...(Chicago)
So just like the reason we're called the Hub
Oliver Wendell Holmes was not trying to be kind.
Windy Boston
Based entirely on anecdotal evidence, I would say the windiest place in metro Boston is Kendall Square. Something about the way the buildings on Broadway channel the wind coming off the Charles. Brrr...
Clearly, the windiest place
Clearly, the windiest place in the metro Boston area is Logan airport...if you were standing in the middle of the runways with planes landing and taking off.