Windy Wellington

This year’s rainy season felt never-ending. Every day I would prepare my umbrella to face the possible weather ahead. But it made me think about my hometown, Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. Back home I never used an umbrella. Almost every day it’s windy, and using an umbrella is always a risk.

I decided to do a little research, and I discovered something that surprised me. While I always knew Wellington was a windy place, according to the internet it’s the windiest city in the world! It has an average wind speed of about 16 miles per hour. It’s for this reason that using an umbrella is inconvenient. Instead, many people wear sweaters or coats with hoods. This may be the reason why I always think typhoons in Japan aren’t so windy at all….