Was it a windy day?

This morning I set off for work in breezy weather nothing special, listening to the radio there was a bit of chaos on the roads with M6 being closed around Cheshire but my car did not get buffeted by the wind on the dual carriageway, I saw no blown down fence panels or branches. That is until I got on a industrial estate near where I work, it must have been hit by big localised gust of wind as found myself on slalom course driving my car around a plastic chair, a flapping tarpaulin and a 2 traffic cones blown into the road. Then a few hundred yards further on nothing other than a bit of blowing litter.