It's a lazy wind today
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (360790)
Rockingham, Australia
July 6, 2024 1:03am CST
It’s very windy here today and very cold. The promised showers are about to eventuate.
We talk about winds coming straight from the South Pole and that’s how the wind feels today. It’s bitterly cold and we sometimes call it a ‘lazy wind’. As in it’s too lazy to go around a person so it goes straight through them. We were out in the wind looking for a few items in various shops.
Guess what my next question is. Do you call a really cold wind a lazy wind? Do you have special phrases for various weather conditions?
You’ve seen the photo before of what consistent strong winds can do to a tree.
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@Beestring (15746)
• Hong Kong
6 Jul 24
Haven't heard of a lazy wind. This is new to me.
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@JudyEv (360790)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Jul 24
No-one seems to be familiar with it. I'm a bit surprised.
@Juliaacv (54345)
• Canada
6 Jul 24
My Dad used to always use the expression a lazy wind when referring to an East wind here, as those are damp winds, and he used to say that the dampness settled right into his bones. I never understood that saying as much as I do every year since then. I guess it is part of an aging aspect.
How cold does it get on a day like this in Australia?
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@Juliaacv (54345)
• Canada
7 Jul 24
@JudyEv I did not realize how cold it actually got there, you never complain about it at all.
We are going to a northern area of our province in a few days.
It is right on the largest of our 5 Great Lakes.
Lake Superior is known for its depth.
The weather there now, which is just after 8am, is 14C, here it is 1 degree warmer.
The daytime highs will be much lower there due to the lake effect breeze.
Where we would have highs of 30C they will have highs about 25 or so.
It will feel cooler while we are on the cruise as we will be surrounded by the water.
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@JudyEv (360790)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Jul 24
@Juliaacv I have to laugh at you saying I never complain about the cold. When I first joined, I would complain but more and more I read about people shovelling snow, being snowed in, ice on the windows, black roads, etc and I thought perhaps I should keep quiet about my kind of cold!! 
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@arunima25 (91985)
• Bangalore, India
6 Jul 24
I am hearing this term for the first time. It's interesting the way it is interpreted. I thought that the wind is too lazy and is blowing slowly.
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@arunima25 (91985)
• Bangalore, India
8 Jul 24
@JudyEv Oh! They do. I remember growing up in Delhi. The cold breeze in those freezing winter would pass through your bone. Our skeleton seemed to be frozen
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@JudyEv (360790)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Jul 24
I hope the monsoon breaks soon - or do I have that wrong? Perhaps you're already in the monsoon.
@snowy22315 (194521)
• United States
8 Jul 24
We don't use those terms, but there are lots of different terms for various wind conditions. Zephyr a type of breeze is one of them.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17005)
• China
6 Jul 24
I haven't known of lazy wind.I know the draught (draft).We have sweltered lately.
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@RebeccasFarm (95582)
• Arvada, Colorado
7 Jul 24
Eventuate..a new one for me Judy..lovely
I never had a word for a lazy wind..but I love all forms of the wind, but mostly the wild and windy ones of the big Noreaster storms.
I never had a word for a lazy wind..but I love all forms of the wind, but mostly the wild and windy ones of the big Noreaster storms.1 person likes this
@JudyEv (360790)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Jul 24
I thought I commented on your response but it's not there now. We used to get a strong easterly when we lived somewhere else and when I fed the ponies their hay, it would very quickly blow right across the paddock.
@jobelbojel (36842)
• Philippines
7 Jul 24
We don't call it that way. I think we don't have a term for it. We just call it wind, strong wind if it is strong.
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@JudyEv (360790)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Jul 24
I am never sure if other cultures know some of the terms that I'm familiar with. I don't like wind much.
@wolfgirl569 (120771)
• Marion, Ohio
6 Jul 24
I thought it was an breeze when you said lazy wind.
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@RasmaSandra (87968)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Jul 24
Nope I call a strong cold wind a harsh wind,
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@LindaOHio (197801)
• United States
6 Jul 24
A lazy wind is a new one on me. No special weather phrases that I'm aware of. Have a good weekend.
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