It can be pretty windy here, all year round. Small island, surrounded by sea, loads of 30+ mph sea breezes.

We don't have hills, though, so the keen riders relish our 'horizontal hills'

The tough ones are in the summer - winds originating in the north, Turkey or even the Dolomites, gathering speed as they cross Saudi Arabia and picking up sandy dust, and adding speed. As they reach the island where the 120+ temperatures causes air to rise causing a low pressure zone, the wind increases and adds evaporated sea to an increasing sandy salty dust storm. Cars can get their paint abraded off in a year or two if left outside