Stationed on Terciera twice. Beautiful place...great golf course!
Been there many times with the Navy. Windiest place I’ve ever been. Winters are too terrible describe. Imagine icy rain coming at you horizontally at 100 MPH as the rooves of all the buildings blow off. Now image landing an airplane in those conditions. After one flight the wind hit 98 knots as we were trying to walk across the ramp. Had to lay-down and use our flight gear as anchors to keep from being blown across the ramp. Hangar doors blew off. Had to use chains to keep the airplane tied-down.