How windy is too windy?

[blueskydays45]

We are camping on the coast currently and the tent is being blown about in a gale! Super windy every night. This is our 3rd and final night of the trip and I haven't slept properly since we arrived. I never sleep well when camping but the wind this time has made it impossible, not helped by the airbed seemingly developing a puncture so my bed keeps deflating through the night. Luckily kids sleeping through the wind and husband sleeping ok.
Winds are between 17 and 30+ mph. When would you say it's too windy? And any tips to help me get some sleep tonight?

Unless you are using expensive, heavy duty tents - 30mph will damage most normal tents. It's too windy.

Yeah, we discovered that the night before when one of he poles broke. Tent was still standing though and DH said it looked secure still. Will assess tonight's damage soon.
Thankfully managed to get some sleep through the bouts of wind and pouring rain. Shame the nights have been such awful weather because we've had lovely daytime weather for the most part and the DC have been in the sea!

One year we survived the 40mph storm unscathed.
The 50 mph storm a couple of days later exceeded our tent's limits.
At 2am I heard a little tripple "pop" which were the guys tearing off and we evacuated to the car which had been parked to shelter the windiest side.

It was an exposed hillside. The most sheltered edge was already utilised. The tent set-up took a couple of hours to deal with and it was halfway through the holiday so a bit early to bail so staying was the only real options. We stayed on in the tent and re-configured the damaged porch for the rest of the stay. But with a damaged steel pole, a tear and several sheared guy points, the tent was a write-off for future use. We were less mashed than many of the other tent though!

Sounds like similar conditions to us @BogRollBOGOFwe've got 1 cracked pole but otherwise our tent survived! Others on the site had some fallen down tents (although they didn't look very secure) and quite a few were flooded and moving tents to a dry patch this morning

We camped in May and there was gusts of 50mph and honestly our tent stood solid. It’s nothing special or expensive, 8 man Hi-Gear tent.
Our friends air tent collapsed on them through the night and when we got up in the morning there was all sorts of tent disasters around the campsite.
I can’t give any advice on why ours was so solid because I don’t know why 🤣it was the first time we used the tent too and we aren’t experienced campers! Maybe just lucky.

I'll admit to playing tent pitch bingo at flappy, un-guyed tents. And many don't check on them for losening either.

The prize for worst erection goes back a number of years, to a simple dome tent and a rowing couple. I don't know whether the row was about pitching the tent, or the row was a distraction, but the end result was not the poles going X but rammed very awkwardly to a )( position

I love camping in nice weather but I'd be checking into an Airbnb for the rest of the week! You get no sleep when the wind is buffetting all night and you're laying there worrying about cracked poles.
Been there, done that!

@Scoop66ours is an 8man hi gear one too! Has done well, we are impressed with it. It's currently back up in our garden drying out (although we've had rain today so not sure how long it will be up in the garden for at this rate!). Going to look into a replacement pole for the one cracked one but otherwise it's done well

Oh wow really, ours is the Zenobia nightfall, got it in the sale for the bargain price of £150, for a first tent it’s been brilliant!
We had to dry ours out too but it didn’t take long, and we also had to replace a pole because we damaged it taking the tent down. Got a replacement from go outdoors easily and was cheap too ☺️

I remember being on a campsite once in 30-40mph winds. My brother’s vango tent survived (just), but they did pack up at 6am and go home. Stupidly I’d left my caravan awning out as hadn’t checked the forecast and by the time I realised how bad it was I didn’t dare risk taking it down. My awning survived but did need re pegging several times that night. Most other tents on the campsite collapsed.

Camped a couple of times in storms, forst time was exposed area (unforecasted suddenly storm) never again! Our tent survived but we had heavy duty pegs and tightened everything, still really noisy, and didn't sleep.
Second time was still on coast but in a dip behind a hedge, we all slept through that one. We are in an air tent, it was the carbon fibre ones which had most damage next day.

According to the company website my tent got to 150mph winds in tests before "structural instability occurred". I'll bail out at 50-60. Not taking the risk, and I'll be worrying the whole time anyway.

What tent is that? I highly doubt that claim*.
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*source is me being a mountain leader and have experienced both 100mph gusts on a mountain top and camping (or bailing out overnight) in 50mph winds. 150mph is a Category 4 Hurricane which causes 'catastrophic damage'....

@outdooryone Sorry. Got my maths wrong. 200kph=125mph, not 150. Still way to high to risk it. The claim is on their website.

Robens Klondike s

Ah, good old Robens. They turn a fan on, steady and directed with no variation, because obviously in nature all wind is that steady.

I own a Robens for the record.