From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstiff wind/breezestiff wind/breezeHEMa fairly strong wind etc → stiff
Examples from the Corpus
stiff wind/breeze• Put in on a shoe and it will wipe off in a stiff breeze.• The mastheads of beached yachts tinkled in a stiff breeze.• The skill is running down the beach with all your equipment often in a stiff breeze.• The next day was bright and cold, with a stiff breeze blowing straight down the field.• A stiff breeze riffles the brush.• A stiff breeze shoves broken clouds across the moon.• Daylight broke, a stiff breeze struck up and the sky clouded over.• Within minutes a stiff wind was blowing over the harbor. 