If it is windy, it feels as if you were standing in a walk-in freezer with a fan blowing on you.

BBC: Scaling the Ecuadorean Andes

The cube-shaped, two-story building is so airtight that Mr. Konkol, a 55-year-old family physician who bikes 16 miles every day to his practice, knows it is windy outside only from seeing trees moving through the window.

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In the same way, they hibernate by going into torpor, they can do the same thing on a very short-term basis through the summer - if it is wet and windy and there is no food then they just shut down their body temperature and they just sleep it out.

BBC: Yorkshire bat colonies 'cohabit all year'

They agree that it is too windy to start a fire.

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It certainly is windy.

BBC: New horizons in Kazakhstan

It is cold and windy.

CNN: Tuchman: Journey into collapsed mine was nerve-racking

But it is unbelievably hot and windy.

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Corail camp is exposed and windy and it's about to get worse.

BBC: Tropical Storm Tomas: Tense evacuations in Haiti

Papohaku Beach is huge, and usually you will only have to share it with a handful of other folks, but it can get pretty windy and swimming is usually off due to strong tides.

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But if the goal of a billion customers is anything more than windy rhetoric, it will need to start moving more boldly.

ECONOMIST: Citibank

Not only is this six-seater the smallest airplane I've ever been in, but it's also windy outside -- and storm clouds are gathering.

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