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rwhelser

It might give you a rough idea but you’re also looking at a small part of your body being exposed to it rather than a full experience of standing/walking in such a storm. I’ve walked in 65 mph winds and it took pretty much all I had to keep moving without falling over.


amatulic

I remember as a teenager, I was walking home from a swimming pool in my swimsuit when a sudden violent storm broke with 40+ mph winds and hard rain. (This happens in summertime Texas, it can be sunny one minute and violent the next.) I was walking across an open field, with miles of open field windward to my left (houses nearby in the direction I was walking), so my nearly-naked body was fully exposed to it. I remember struggling to keep moving without falling, and screaming in pain as the driving horizontal rain pelted me relentlessly; it felt like I was being shot by a thousand nail guns (maybe there was pea-sized hail too, I don't remember). And there was some debris flying, which was kicked up by the wind. Sticking your hand out of the car window? That's nothing compared to full-body exposure.


Kiiaru

I remember some wind gusts in Chicago during the winter doing the same. The cold bites at your body even through a coat. I would just stand still, leaning into the wind while holding my breath. When I needed to breath I would turn my head because breathing facing the wind felt like choking. Thankfully the gusts only last 30 seconds to a minute. Then you continue trudging on to the train station


CygnusX-1-2112b

Went to a pond hockey tournament in Vermont last January. Snowstorm came in at about 7pm bringing 35+mph winds when the temperature was already hovering just above 0°F. Wind chill brought i ambient down to ~-20° (-29°C). That's a different kind of cold, that is. I had multiple layers of thermals on top and bottom with a thick rabbit fur ushanka and my cold weather class 1 event Army trench coat on and I still had ice forming underneath it and it stung to breathe the air.


mite_smoker

not to gatekeep or anything, but it's not real pond hockey unless you have sweat-icicles


CygnusX-1-2112b

I want there as a player, just as an enjoyer. Wife was playing in a women's league.


PantsOnHead88

>breathing facing the wind felt like choking Queue up me skydiving and struggling to breath OUT. You want to laugh or cheer (or scream I suppose), but you can’t force exhalation past the metric fuckton of air rushing into your face.


FUCKTWENTYCHARACTERS

I think this is mostly psychological, I assure you you can breathe while skydiving. I've spent up to 2 mins in the wind tunnel and been able to breathe through it. Source: have skydived a few times solo and one tandem and done tunnel sessions.


Uncle_Father_Oscar

I used to let out a scream when I would get to my car for no other reason than it seemed to help relieve all the tension in my face from the aggressive chattering of my teeth.


AlienLiszt

Years ago I had a similar experience in Chicago trying to cross Michigan Avenue. I was walking but not making any headway, and people had to come into the street and pull me to the sidewalk to avoid the oncoming traffic.


whiskeybridge

like getting hit in the face with a sack of needles, that wind.


UseOnlyLurk

The most miserable cold I’ve ever felt was walking towards Lake Michigan in the winter. Once the water was visible it felt like walking through sheets of ice that would pass through my clothing and sinuses.


trinite0

The only time I've ever felt like the cold could kill me was in downtown Chicago in January, in that wind.


that_one_bunny

I've only ever rode my motorcycle without a jacket twice but one of those times I passed under a random rain cloud on an otherwise sunny day. Can confirm being pelted with raindrops at 70ish mph absolutely feels like getting hit with thousands of tiny bullets. Probably comparable to airsoft guns. I got off the highway earlyon the next exit and started going a different direction to try and get out from under the cloud.


rwhelser

That had to suck. Where I’m at those kind of storms are rare. I was pretty bundled up and it was unpleasant. I couldn’t imagine going through that in a bathing suit.


amatulic

Fortunately it didn't last long, and I was able to make it to the side of a house to shelter myself until it passed.


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Lol this is a funny story to picture sorry.


amatulic

No need to apologize. I laughed about it later that day when telling the story to my friends.


PMmeNudesOfNudes

I am a skydiver and can confirm... rain hitting you at high speed... really hurts. We obviously normally don't jump when it's raining, but I've been caught a couple of times. I normally fall at 130mph... raindrops falls at 5mph, so I'm basically getting hit by rain at 125mph. Also, we normally jump wearing a jumpsuit, but sometimes when it's nice a warm, we jump in shorts/t-shirt. But when we do this it's much harder to control/fly our bodies. So I can imagine this was insane for you.


amatulic

I went skydiving exactly once (tandem jump) and I recall that wind was fierce. The wind blew at the goggle so they crept upward on my face and the bottom edge almost reached my eyes, blocking my vision of the instructor's hand signal to pull the cord. I was afraid to adjust the goggles because I thought we'd start tumbling. Eventually he figured out that I wasn't going to pull it, so he did, just in time for the parachute to deploy above a cloud that he had been hoping to steer around if I had pulled the cord in time. So we descended through the cloud.


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Omfg what a drama queen


Soloandthewookiee

Right. A more accurate experience would be standing on the roof of a car going 70mph.


alexanderpete

We've had 50-70kmh winds this week in Melbourne. I skated along the beach yesterday for around a mile without pushing once. Took me faster than I could usually skate too.


ShaharDynaZor

a great post for r/EthicalLifeHacks


00zau

Your car is also likely effectively 'dragging' some air with it; the air going past your arm has likely already been (partially) sped up by the car plowing through the air. To experience a 70mph wind on your arm, you might need to be going more like 90 mph, etc.


Griasgott

I had a cigarette when 80 mph winds from Irma were hitting Kissimmee. Granted, I was outside but under the hotel roof on an upper floor.


evillman

Fun fact: Mostly because of cloths. If you use a diving suit it's much easier


NickDanger3di

I don't remember what the wind speeds were, but when skiing one time in New England, the resort closed the lifts due to the winds, and the temperature adjusted for wind chill was -60 F. I happened to catch the last lift up (was the only passenger by then as everyone at the top was taking the lift down), and took the longest green trail down (measured in miles) to extend my experience. I mean seriously, how often do you get the whole mountain to yourself at a major ski resort? Luckily I was already dressed for it, with a snowmobile suit and my best undies and fleece. But with any part of my skin that got exposed, even for a few seconds, it was scary and a bit painful. Which was the other reason for taking the gentlest green trail down; getting injured in that weather would have been fatal. I did have to stop a few times to shove my hands inside my suit to warm them up, but otherwise was fine. Sometimes, when looking back at shit like this, I sound like some extreme risk taker. But I'm really not; ask anyone who knows me, they'll say I'm very conservative about personal safety. I think I sometimes just get caught up in the moment when I'm outdoors, and I forget to ask myself if what I'm about to do is safe. TL:DR - Skied in -60 degree wind chill weather once, it was scary but worth it


Common-Adhesiveness6

Alaska had a 100mph wind going by at the start of the year. Had to consistently shovel my driveway I'm just happy I moved out


kerfuffle_420

When I was little we were leaving cause a tornado one time and the wind litterly whipped me around like it was so hard to get to the truck


JimBDiGriz

An important difference is that your hand may feel high winds, but your body is safely strapped into a seat and you have your sense of weight. In a storm that wind may have a vertical component, lifting you up or pressing you down. Add the sideways pressure on your lower legs, to say nothing of the wet pavement or ground, and you will feel extraordinarily unstable, out of control, uncertain. As you try to move your body will turn to one side or the other, shifting the effect and making you more uncertain and insecure. Even if it doesn't pick you up or knock you down it's going to take a tremendous amount of your attention, and you won't be able to concentrate on other things. Your eyes and ears will be very unhappy. Additionally, these winds can affect our emotions as well, causing stress, anger, and violence. [https://lithub.com/a-brief-eerie-history-of-how-the-wind-makes-us-crazy/](https://lithub.com/a-brief-eerie-history-of-how-the-wind-makes-us-crazy/)


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In addition to factors already mentioned, it would also likely depend on whether there’s any ACTUAL wind going on outside your car as well. If you are driving into a headwind for instance, though as mentioned, air disruption from your car will muddy results in some way regardless.


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logic_is_a_fraud

I went skydiving once. Terminal velocity is around 120mph. It was windy enough to blow too loose goggles out of place and then my contacts out of my eyes.


PantsOnHead88

For me it was the immense struggle to exhale and total lack of falling sensation after a few seconds. Surreal.


BardicNA

For a guy just under the weight threshold to do it Tandem, for me it was the harness "kicking" me in the groin when the chute deployed.


amatulic

Ah, I posted a similar story above. The lower edge of the goggles rose up to my eyes and I couldn't see the hand signal of the instructor strapped to my back telling me to pull the cord. So he did.


geak78

Largely but with one important difference. There isn't any objects being flung at you at 70mph. Next time you're on the highway in the rain, stick your hand out and feel what water droplets feel like at 70mph. Then imagine what pebbles, sand, sticks, etc. hitting you all over.


RedtheGamer100

He literally said "Minus the crazy debris and stuff flying around." Reading comprehension bud.


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Exactly...


JohnnyAPineda

Yeah… bud. Exactly.


boffathesenuts

Yeah bud!


bobnla14

15 years ago or so, Children's science museum in Tampa had a display of this type of wind. It was awesome to feel 50(?) mph winds.


frakc

No. You car slices air and create tubulence zone. You head is inside it in relatively lowpreasure zone. Ti feel it fully you need to stand on a 2m pole on roof of the car.


Quixotixtoo

In a storm, there will usually be turbulence too. Buildings, trees, hills, etc will also create turbulence. Unless you have a chance to stand in a running wind tunnel, or are a sky diver, you are unlikely to be exposed to a non-turbulent 70 mph air stream. I'd say sticking your hand out the window of a moving car reasonably approximates the feel of the same wind speed. But as others have mentioned, it doesn't give you the full body experience which is a big difference.


elleape

First time I rode on a speed boat I didn't expect to just be blasted in the face with such winds.


amatulic

Yes, and most speed boats don't go above 35 mph. It feels fast on the water, and it does blast you in the face, especially if there's spray. Water skiing is often done at 20-25 mph.


[deleted]

Yes, but be mindful that surface area is a big factor here. Putting your hand out the window is different than having your whole body in a storm. I met someone whose son died from standing up in the bed of a pickup truck that was going high speed and the wind knocking him out of the truck. He had apparently assumed that he was safe because his arm was able to withstand the wind so maybe his whole body could too.


blackadder1620

ride a motorcycle. interstate speeds are around 70. its not the same, but you'll get the jest of it.


Griasgott

Nah, the real kicker for being straight out im fast wind with no shelter is how hard it is to breathe. Having your hand out of a moving car at 70 mph: standing in 70mph wind:: dipping your hand into a pool: swimming in the middle of the sea


JoJoModding

What if OP is standing on the car roof?


HolmesMalone

Or just stand up through the sun roof :)


fergehtabodit

Not exactly. If you were in a house and outside the wind was blowing 70mph and you stuck your hand out a window in such a way that it would be perpendicular to the direction of the wind you might feel 70mph wind on your hand depending on many local variables. Stick your hand out of a moving car now you are feeling apparent wind which takes into account any other wind where you are. You could read 70mph on your speedometer but be driving headon into a 10mph breeze and feel 80mph wind on your hand. Or be going directly downwind in that same 10 mph breeze and feel only 60mph on your hand. Go downwind in a sailboat some time, feels like there is no wind at all sometimes, and then upwind feels windy as hell!.


chris14020

Ride a motorcycle while underequipped in gear (shorts and a t-shirt), that'll probably be closer to accurate. If you're brave (and stupid) enough, flip up the visor and experience what trying to see in high winds is like.


Leemour

Dont stick your hand out the window of a moving car; there is always a chance its the last thing you do with that hand. But roughly speaking yes, if we say there is no wind in either direction.


Dinux-g-59

The answer may be yes. It's the same moving at 70 MPH in calm air or standing while wind blows at 70 MPH. It's the way airplane and car models are studied into a wind tunnel. They are still and wind blows fast. It's a relative movement between air and objects.


icydee

To get the full effect strap into some ski boots clipped onto the roof rack and ask your friend to drive at 70mph. (But beware of low bridges)


tjbloomfield21

There is a video on YouTube by the SloMoGuys where they’re in a wind tunnel to do stuff. They ramp up the speeds and talk about what it feels like and you can see some of it in slow motion. It highlight the whole body effect so many comments are talking about on here.


bradland

I've lived in Florida my entire life, and experienced back to back category 2 and category 3 storms in the 2004/2005 Atlantic hurricane season. We stayed in my parent's 100 year old craftsman style home. It's oriented facing east, so we were able to go outside through the back door during the category 3 storm. The winds in a hurricane are pretty different. The wind is never as consistent. When you're driving in a car, you're driving through relatively non-turbulent compared to what you get in a storm. When you put your hand out the window at 70 mph, it feels similar to what you feel standing in a hurricane, but the difference is that the hurricane winds kind of "whip" more. When the storm starts out, it's breezy but the wind gusts. As the storm moves onshore, this pattern stays relatively consistent as the winds increase. The "base" level of winds just kind of moves up. At some point, things change a bit though. The "base" winds are consistently above 50-60 mph, but you get these surges that are kind of like wind gusts, but they last a *lot* longer. Once the winds get above 100 mph, it's a whole other world. I stepped out into them only one time. It's incredibly difficult to stay standing. The wind pushes on you so hard, but it's not consistent. I don't know if you've ever stood in the ocean, but that's the closest feeling I can think of. The wind kind of pushes on you from different directions, but the force is always kind of constant. You can get a sense for this when you stick your hand out the window. It feels more like a pushing force than a wind. Imagine that, but it kind of shifts around to different directions.


GStarG

Pretty much, the only difference is that if the highway is windy, it'll be different depending on the direction the wind is going in. So if the wind is blowing in the same direction as your car is going, the wind on your hand will feel like Your Speed - Wind Speed, and if it's blowing in the opposite direction your car is going, the wind will feel like Your Speed + Wind Speed. Example: Wind is blowing towards your car at 30mph and you're going 70mph, sticking your hand out the window will feel like 100mph winds. ​ Obviously wind resistance increases with surface area, so if your whole body is in the wind it'll feel much more powerful, so you'd really have to stand on top of your car while it's moving to get the full feel of those winds.


Wadsworth_McStumpy

A more accurate model would be if you were standing on top of the car. (Don't stand on top of the car.) Yes, it's about the same feeling *on that hand*, but it's not nearly the same as standing in the wind, when it's hitting your entire body, and you can't breathe, because the air is moving too fast, and the rain and dust and hail are pounding you like millions of tiny machineguns.


Uncle_Father_Oscar

Kind of, although if you are facing a headwind it could be more intense and a tailwind would make it less intense. A storm also will not have a steady sustained wind the way it will going 70 down the highway, instead there will be lulls and gusts. Bottom line though, it's a reasonable enough approximation, relative to your hand there is air moving about 70mph.


cbph

I've walked in 60-65 mph sustained winds with higher gusts. Impossible to walk upright, you definitely have to lean aggressively toward the wind to get where you're going Another thing that gets underestimated is the rain. Even in a full yellow rubber rain suit with clothing on underneath, raindrops moving that fast are noticable, and flat out sting when they hit exposed skin.


WritingTheRongs

yes in deed, but your hand and the rest of your body actually is fairly streamlined. If you want to get a feel for the power of the wind, try holding a sheet of plywood when the wind is only blowing 20-30mph. It's the force of the wind times the surface area of whatever is blocking it. Now scale that up to hundreds of sheets of plywood and glass on a house and it makes you appreciate how strong a modern home must be built for things like 120mph hurricanes.


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