<p>[Wind-</a> Average Wind Speed- (MPH)](<a href=“http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/online/ccd/avgwind.html]Wind-”>http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/online/ccd/avgwind.html)</p>
<p>Average annual windspeed (mph)
Chicago: 10.3
Boston: 12.4
New York City, Central Park: 9.3
SAN FRANCISCO AP: 10.6
SAN FRANCISCO C.O.: 8.7
MINNEAPOLIS-ST.PAUL: 10.5
PHILADELPHIA, PA 9.5
PROVIDENCE, RI 10.4</p>
<p>Is this a rhetorical question?</p>
<p>I believe it was named a windy city because of its politics.</p>
<p>What the above person said.</p>
<p>^I know the origin. But it still doesn’t change the fact that many people believe it’s about the weather too.</p>
<p>Well, Chicago certainly is a windy place, but it was probably one of those tongue-in-cheek things.</p>
<p>Kind of like saying to your friend “Boy, talk about hot” as some attractive woman walks past you on the beach and then going “and the weather is pretty sweltering, too.”</p>
<p>No, its definitely much more windy then other places I have been to/lived. When the wind licks off the lake on a cold winter day it is the worst days you’ll have at NU.</p>
<p>I have never had one day here when the wind is not blowing in my face. Even on Tuesday of finals week last quarter, when it was 70 degrees outside.</p>
<p>It’s supposed to be less windy than Boston, according the the windspeed data. What’s more is that the difference between Boston and Chicago is greater than the difference between Chicago, and say, NYC. So why does wind seem to come up as an issue more often for Chicago than Boston, as if Chicago is more windy than Boston?</p>
<p>lakeside location = windy as hell</p>
<p>It was named that back when the politicians were ‘full of wind’. it is however very windy by the lake and they have something called ‘lake effect snow’ where it only snows along the lake and not inland. some winters can be brutal. Perhaps its a myth, but did they ever have ropes at NU to help by certain buildings where the wind made it difficult to walk around in the winter?</p>