It's a chill wind

Greater celandine gets torn by the wind but is the arch survivor

It is the vernal equinox and true to the old adage the winds have increased.  The statistics seem to show that there is no validity in the belief that there are storms around the equinoxes but  the cold wind has suddenly returned after the sunny days of early March.  It seems odd that such a widespread belief should have no scientific basis.  Dickens mentions them and even Sherlock Holmes is surprised to receive a visitor such is the severity of the equinoctial gale in  The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips.
The equinoctial gales are more often noted at the autumnal equinox in late September and early October but are also associated with the equal days of spring.

A teuchat

My grandfather, a farmer, called the autumnal gales the “teuchat storms” as they occurred as the teuchats (peewits or lapwings), started to move on to the farmlands from higher summer pastures and their numbers were augmented by over-wintering flocks from Northern Europe.

Lambs can stand the cold winds but rain  is a hazard

The spring gales were often called the “lambing storms” by  reason of their timing.  Yet we are informed that it is all a misapprehension and that there is no evidence of wind and weather changes specifically at the equinoxes.    Be that as it may, it has been a cold windy week