Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass bei uns "blustery days" im Herbst stattfinden. Herbststürme sind jedem ein Begriff, aber Sommerstürme? Und in Gegenden, wo es auch im Sommer steife Brisen gibt, sind selbige ebenfalls kühl und nicht warm.

The winds today are coming from the south, so it is a warm breeze and has a lot of moisture. If the winds were from the north it would be more likely to have at least a hint of cool/cold or would be cold (for my area).

Still I am wondering for other native speakers, if they heard blustery day would it always conjure the cool weather day. I sort of feel like I need to a warm blustery day to convey what is happening.

I partly agree and partly disagree with Birgila.

Here's the relevant dictionary meaning of blustery: "blowing in loud and abrupt bursts " (see http://onelook.com/?w=blustery&ls=a)

In the summer (at least in this part of the US), thunderstorms are quite common, and they often have a lot of wind.

But I agree that the term blustery is generally used for cool or wet or cold days. It would not ordinarily be used to describe a warm windy day.

I am much more southerly than you eric (head south on I-95, way south). My summer storms are totally different than this. The clouds would be thunderheads with clouds so dark and heavy you would think it is night time. The winds would gust very violently and the rain would most times be torrential downpours. This happens on a daily or near daily basis. This is definitely our fall weather and today there is no rain and the cloud cover is not so heavy, so light is getting through today.

Thanks for your feeling eric, because it somehow feels odd to use it for today, but it describes it perfectly except for that very warm thick feeling to the air. Would a warm blustery day work? The dictionary entry only mentions the wind and no mention of the cool/cold or even wet if I recall it accurately.

I also disagree with Birgila; here in SoCal, for instance, some of the most blustery days can occur with Santa Ana winds blowing, when it gets abnormally hot because those winds come from the desert. :-)

dude, when the Santa Ana winds are blowing do you refer to them as a blustery day? Would you tell someone on the east coast that it was a blustery day when the Santa Ana winds are blowing?

Although aren't the Santa Ana winds much stronger than piglet blowing winds? Aren't they more like small boar blowing speeds?:-))

My first association with a "blustery day" are clouds of autumn leaves swirling through gusts of wind. For me such days are characterized by particularly strong winds and actually being able to see them in the form of violently swaying trees or blowing leaves. However, growing up in southern California, the very windy days tended to be from the warm and dry Santa Anas - the ones crackling with electricity and the spark of fire.

edit: @dude - exactly!

@snickerdoodle: I think JoyaBerlin has just answered your question for me. :-)

Thank you, Joya.

My first association with a "blustery day" are clouds of autumn leaves swirling through gusts of wind. For me such days are characterized by particularly strong winds and actually being able to see them in the form of violently swaying trees or blowing leaves. However, growing up in southern California, the very windy days tended to be from the warm and dry Santa Anas - the ones crackling with electricity and the spark of fire.

edit: @dude - exactly!
@ snickerdoodle - I would still call it a blustery day. When they're really strong it's rather creepy, though, with all of the mysterious sounds against the windows and such

What phrase would you use to describe a day of Santa Anas to someone from the east coast or Germany for that matter?

ein heisser, extrem trockener, stark böender Wind, bei dem dir die Haare zu Berge stehen können (wortwörtlich). :-)

Kein Tag für Strumpfhosen und Röcke ;)

Wüsst ich nicht, trag' ich nie. ;-)