What does breezy mean?

[PeterR]

Ever since the BBC dropped the Met Office as their weather provider their on-line weather site indicates that the selected day is breezy – or worse. If you click on the lower hourly section anything up to 7 mph is a light wind, 8 mph counts as breezy. The effect is that even the calmest of days is usually listed as being breezy.

I know the general BBC site is not aimed at sailors but this seems ridiculous.

In my highly unscientific comparison of the Met office forecasts for our area with the BBC they have frequently differed dramatically and the Met office seems to have been closer to the truth for much more of the time. What's your impression?

 

[macd]

Since 'breeze' figures in Beaufort descriptions for anything from 4 to 27 knots, I'd suggest it's a pretty useless appellation, whoever's using it.

 

[KeithH]

I agree that the BBC's wind forecast almost every day is ... breezy. Quite useless.

 

[[70521]]

The Met Office provide their online forecast as usual.

I get my weather from a variety of sources, the Met Office being one and just a mile or so up the road.

 

[LittleSister]

I trust they also use the term 'bright' to describe the weather.

 

[capnsensible]

Proper breezy is when you have to put two reefs in your courtesy flag.

 

[Kukri]

“He had a breezy manner” : he was irritatingly cheerful, full of himself, and over confident.”

“It was a breezy day”: Bright and F4-5.

 

[PhillM]

Proper breezy is when you have to put two reefs in your courtesy flag.

Superb!

 

[Biggles Wader]

I trust they also use the term 'bright' to describe the weather.

And "thick" to describe the visibility

Or was that something I read in the brexit forum?:ambivalence:

 

[KellysEye]

The dictionary definition of a breeze is a gentle wind.

 

[Wansworth]

Proper breezy is when you have to put two reefs in your courtesy flag.

Or when the courtesy flag and it’s halliard and pulley descend to the deck