The Hawk?

[THE END OF ALL DAYS]

Dr. Z is saying that the wind in buffalo is called "The Hawk"... uh... I live outside of ROchester, and I have never heard this before...

is this true or is Z just stupid?

[tat2dmike77]

I think you answered your own question keith

[HAMMER]

Twenty five years of games in Buffalo and never heard Hawk to describe the wind, very gay.

[jamze132]

Yeah it sounds down syndromish.

[The last buffalo fan]

Geez guys, leave the boy alone!!!!!

[THATHURMANATOR]

Lived here all my life and never heard of the Hawk.

[YardRat]

Lived here all my life and never heard of the Hawk.

Me too.

[Mr. Miyagi]

It's right here:

Buffalo Bills (7-7)
Strength of arm is a serious factor in their choice of a QB to draft. Thus J.P. Losman had the muscle to zip the ball through major league gusts against Miami, as that great northern wind called The Hawk bit deeply. "J.P. has that mentality that he can throw it through a hurricane," quarterback coach Turk Schonert said.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ks2/index.html

[Jimbuktu]

I've heard it before in previous years ... from Dr. Z I believe

[ublinkwescore]

Could they be referring to the Hudson Hawk - Bruce Willis was in a movie called Hudson Hawk - they kinda talked about it in the beginning - it gets it's name because of the Hudson River.

[RedEyE]

I think it's an American Indian reference.

[SquishDaFish]

Its always been his reference to the wind in Buffalo.

[Gunzlingr]

Its always been his reference to the wind in Buffalo.

I have heard it referenced many times

[Mr. Miyagi]

I've never heard it when I lived in Rochester.

[chernobylwraiths]

First I have heard of it as well.

[Night Train]

Hunter Thompson willed him his black bag. That explains a lot of his thinking.

[John Doe]

I think that Dr. Z's quote ("... that great northern wind ..") is a term for great northern winds in general - not specific to Buffalo. I have heard the winds in Chicago refered to as "The Hawk" as well.

[OpIv37]

Could they be referring to the Hudson Hawk - Bruce Willis was in a movie called Hudson Hawk - they kinda talked about it in the beginning - it gets it's name because of the Hudson River.

you do realize that the Hudson river is several hundred miles from Buffalo and the winds in the stadium are mostly caused by the proximity to Lake Erie right?

[CuseJetsFan83]

ok, well he may not be as cookoo as i thought.

as a math science major in college i did a few projects on radar detection..... and basically a "hawk" wind would refer to extreme changes in winds/temp ie really nice weather turning cold..... kinda like last weekend..... and what happens is you have a bird migration that causes false blips on the radars in strong directional winds known as "hawk winds"

http://www.afonet.org/english/abstracts.html

http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/research/birds/birdnet1.htm

When conditions finally did improve, the resulting migration on the evening of 9 November was more like a "bird wave", as discussed by Lincoln (1939), that progressed southward across the radar site. The large flocks of migrating birds produced anomalous VWP winds on the Buffalo WSR-88D. Because there were no precipitation echoes at the same elevation angle and distance from the radar, the reflected energy was dominated by the bird echo returns. Therefore, the VWP data showed only minor RMS errors and variablity to the mean radial velocity of the wind, a likely signature for birds all moving roughly in the same direction.