anything over 15-20mph winds can make your fishing experience into a workout. Get comfortable in calm weather before you venture out into unknown wind and wind gust conditions. I use www.wundeground.com for my weather updates. Solid dependable weather site you can set your clock to when assessing the wind conditions. I think tubers have all learned through experience and you wont forget the fist time you have to beach your tube to wait out high winds. As you get into moving waters will then factor currents into your game plan.....thats another dicussion. Good luck.