It was windy on Monday and today at May Nissan, and I had a couple of thoughts on that. Allow me to share...
Firstly, don't judge your play level on a windy day. One of the delightful aspects of pickleball is that lack of weight of the ball. When the wind blows, the ball gets blown around easily. This mostly affects soft shots, touch shots, dinks, and drops.
So if touch shots are harder and they are not easy to start with, a windy day might be a good time to work on third shot drives.
Pro tip, pay attention to the wind direction when returning serves. If the wind is at your back, you want to setup a step or two closer to the base line as deeper shots will be rarer and soft shots will die shorter.
And conversely if the wind is blowing into your face, move back further from the base line to receive a serve. You'll also have to hit the ball harder to get the normal depth on your service return. Now, there is a bonus to having the wind in your face, your opponents' shots are more likely to go out, so watch for hard shots and prepare to duck.
Strangely, I don't think that wind matters too much when serving. I'm a big proponent of serving to the middle of the serving court, so with a tail wind or otherwise, my normal serve is usually fine.
And then finally, dinking can be very difficult with a lot of wind, so dink carefully. Should you bang on a windy day? I'd suggest not, since if you are a better dinker you'll do better on a windy day then a lesser skilled opponent.
While windy days are not as much fun, think of it as a training session and try to make solid shots that work and get comfortable with wind. One more skill on the training path of pickleball!