The day is gloriously sunny with a warm wind blowing across the Pearl River delta.
Rather, it is a force, a prevailing wind blowing mankind into the next millennium.
Except for one thing: There's a demographic wind blowing stiffly at its back.
Still, there's now a freezing wind blowing outside and that appears to be blowing away much of the smog, just in time for Sunday's marathon.
At sunset, with a warm wind blowing off the desert, we sail Jelal's felucca, the open boat that more than any other evokes the romance of the Nile.
Most of all, there is nothing as satisfying as those moments where you step out on a dark night, the wind blowing, the rain beating down, with a long journey ahead - and decide to catch the Tube instead.
I'm writing this blog from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a cold katabatic wind is blowing off the ice onto the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.
During a short cycle the solar wind (a breeze of electrically charged gas blowing off the sun's surface) is stronger than normal.
At times, when he spoke, he felt as if a kind of mental wind were blowing his thoughts back at him, forcing him to self-consciously order his syntax as he pushed words out.
For some races, the combination of water flowing west and wind blowing east creates a series of choppy five-foot waves.
The wind blowing in on a cool and damp night meant very little hitting for either team, just 10 combined hits.
With survival at stake, Tanti chanced upon a solution that was literally blowing in the wind.
As the old saying goes, you don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.
The direction of the wind matters, too, because wind blowing to shore can drive a storm surge and lead to coastal flooding.
United, while not exactly contrite, can nevertheless sense which way the wind is blowing, which is a useful thing for an airline, and has reinitiated contact with the aggrieved musician.
You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing: Ford figures to let Lincoln be an upper middle brand, as Oldsmobile used to be, and cut costs by letting Mercury fade away.
Just because you are a banker doesn't mean you have to dress like one and, frankly, the way the wind is blowing, you'd be far better served disguising yourself as a geography teacher or even a lawyer.
We entered the wind business in the late 1990s, when a wind-turbine company asked us to provide electricity from its site when the wind wasn't blowing.
We understand that they had a favourable reception and were told that "the wind was blowing in the right direction".
Platforms with blowing wind and ghostly spawns can present a logistical nightmare for unprepared groups, as moving too far ahead can bring additional unseen foes into the fray.
We stood up now and then to get our circulation going, and it was always the same: the wind was always blowing, there was always a semblance of moon, always in the same spot in the sky, and in front of the moon a fantastic cavalcade of ragged clouds, always the same.
Their 20, 000 outstanding contracts (at last count) are nothing like a record, but they do indicate which way the wind is blowing.
Nevertheless, given the way the political wind is blowing, GE Capital should expect to feel a heavier regulatory hand on its shoulder in future.
Many politicians have now seen which way the wind is blowing and quickly changed their EU euphoria to a strongly EU-critical line.
The sky was clear and the sun shone brightly on a heavy snow pack, but it was cold and the wind was blowing.
The nominal opposition party, Islah, a conservative mishmash of Islamists and tribesmen, saw which way the wind was blowing and nominated Mr Saleh before his own party did.
So, the way UK officials tell it, this wasn't about an open-ended veto for the City, it was about preserving the single market in a number of specific areas, where the wind in Brussels has not been blowing our way.
It is also an "enabler" for renewable energy, providing a source of electricity that can step in to fill the gap when the wind is not blowing or the sun is not shining.
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If this wind of change is not yet strong, most chief executives have a good idea which way it is blowing.
To use that excess electricity (obviously, only excess when the wind is blowing just right, or the Sun shining) to electrolyse water by passing it through a fuel cell and then store the resultant hydrogen.
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