It's a bit blowy out. Nothing like Gordon was experiencing a while back, I'm sure (although that's mainly because I tend to assume that statistically it's likely that none of my circumstances are ever particularly extreme, in the grand scheme of things).

I was reminded, as I walked down the street for some lunch, of something I was told at primary school. As a small child (relatively speaking) we were studying the Beaufort scale, and a symptom for one level was that it became hard to walk into the wind. I briefly wondered whether it was different now that I was more massive (relative to my cross-sectional area), but decided that since it was only a descriptive indicator and I couldn't even remember which force it applied to, that was something of a moot point.

It's amazing what you can recall when something a little unusual happens.
It's also amazing how Wikipedia and other online sources demystify things (even a quick glance at the table from the link above took most of the steam out of this post). Maybe one of these days I'll try a new policy of not looking things up the moment they interest me.