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✦ WEATHER & SEASONS ✦

WEATHER!

💨 When air is on the move — from high to low, then curved by the spinning world

📖 150 Topics ⏱️ 5 min 🧠 Quiz included
MOVE
Air mass
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H→L
Gradient
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SPIN
Turn
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LOCAL
Breezes
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METER
Speed
💨 WIND: WHY AIR MOVES
TOPIC 06 · PRESSURE GRADIENT · CORIOLIS · FRICTION · SEA BREEZE
PAGE 1 OF 5, WHAT IS "WIND" ANYWAY?
NOT MAGIC
WIND = AIR IN MOTION
You cannot see the wind, but you see what it does — it rustles trees, whips up waves, cools you when you are sweaty, and can knock over bins when it is strong. In science words: wind is the horizontal movement of air (vertical "wind" is more often called an updraught in storms). Topic 5 taught that air presses down. Here we learn: when pressure is not the same in two places, the atmosphere tries to even things out — and that push — along with the planet spinning and drag at the ground — is why air flows as wind.
📐 TWO NUMBERS
We report wind direction (where the wind is coming from — a "northerly" blows from the north) and speed (knots, km/h, or mph).
WHOOSH!
FLAGS
Flags stream downstream of the source direction
DUST
Dust, spray, and birds show you the flow of parcels
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