In Antarctica in particular you have high altitude to deal with which lends itself to being very windy.

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It was bitter cold and very windy.

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The first week includes some very windy flat sections and one especially dangerous stage, on Tuesday, with a cobbled road that favors larger riders, or at least those with plenty of experience racing the spring classics in Northern Europe.

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At home I remember the cyclists, one of them in their eighties, who I met on a very windy Saturday morning riding around a twenty mile course in New Longton to help people living in the developing world overcome their water shortage.

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It's still very windy, though.

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"The horse does not like it if it's very wet and windy, she tends to rear and buck, " he said.

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The Met Office has warned many areas are likely to experience a period of very wet and windy weather over the weekend.

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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.

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It can be cold, wet and windy and has got poor facilities - all in all, it's very unwelcoming and that's just for Brighton!

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