(Found) Searching for a windy planet

patmat

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Short story, 1960's probably in SF&F.

A pair of explorers are dropped on a windy planet. The locals are built like sails, they sail about happily on the land. The explorers have a rough time, even in their reinforced dome- boulders are flying around, very windy! They're just barely hanging on.

Then one day the locals disappear, except one who tells the explorers- you'd better get out of here, winter is coming, and then it gets REALLY rough! (the locals all hide in caves)... rut-roh!
 
Possibly Robert Scheckley's "A Wind Is Rising"? That was the answer for a very similar question on another site.
 

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