why does wind blow in gusts and not at a steady speed?

Answer 1

Think of the atmosphere like an ocean of air. The wind is made up of a series of turbulent eddies caused by atmospheric waves, driven by differences in pressure.
These eddies range from very small (e.g. circles you see in cigarette smoke) to very large (say weather front scale - 10s or 1000s of kms across), but the largest ones that contribute to gustiness are probably about a few hundred metres across (at least on some wild Scottish mountain). The chaotic interaction of the eddies means that sometimes they add up and increase the local wind speed, and sometimes they cancel each other out and decrease the local wind speed - and these interactions, and the number of each sized eddy contribute to the general gustiness.

Answer 2

Its The Corealis Effect Its The Part That Makes Every Weather But Its Not Straight Cause The Wind Is Always Uneven

Answer 3

It actually can blow at a steady speed.

Answer 4

When Hot and Cold air meet/clash agains each other, it creates wind...so if it is not constantly meeting, then you will not have a steady stream...

Answer 5

It's a puzzle. The answer is blowing in the wind.

Answer 6

is the sound making a lot of noise where you are too!?

The answer to that is because then it would be called a gentle breeze if it was at a steady speed

Answer 7

because the sun heats different parts of the earth differently so you get varying degrees of pressure

Answer 8

For the same reason that you fart in bursts - It has to have a rest sometime!!

Answer 9

Because hot and cold clumps are not always equal and they can be in clumps.

Answer 10

good question