What is wind... how is wind formed?

Question

I wanna know what is this wind everyone talks off. What makes this breeze that feels so pleasant to me. Or the gales that blow of my freaking hats. What is it and how is formed!!!!

Answer 1

The breeze is formed by the pressure difference between the two points.

When at one place the pressure is more than the other place. The wind starts blowing to balance the pressure difference between the two points. It is just like water flows from higher levels to the lower levels till balance is maintained. In case of water it gives rise to water currents and in case of open atmosphere it gives rise to air currents which we call wind.

This air current is accompanied with dust, particles, gases and moisture particles which give us a sensation when it touches us.

So wind is nothing but the pressure difference that causes the dust, gases and moisture particles from one place to move to the other place.


Peace........

Answer 2

Air in motion is called wind.Wind has both velocity and direction.The direction from which the wind blows is taken as the direction of wind in Meteorology.The wind is seldom steady over the surface.It varies with space and time.Sometimes the fluctuations are very sudden and short-lived.These fuctations are called gusts(sudden increase in velocity) and lulls(sudden derease in velocity).The velocity is usually reported in Knots in all the meteorological observations.The gusts and lulls are created by the turbulence in the atmosphere.Coastal stations experience the diurnal variation(the regular variations experienced every day)in the form of sea-breeze and land-breeze.
The wind blows from high pressure area to low pressure area on the surface.These pressure areas are created by the unequal heating of the earth's surface(or sea area) by the sun's radiation.
The wind blows not only on the surface,it is blowing at different altitudes with varying speed and direction.Sometimes the winds will be blowing very strong just above us even though we do not experience it at the surface.As an example, we can mention" jet streams " which are blowing above us with a speed more than 60 Knots.

Answer 3

Wind is the air moving across the earth's surface. Wind may blow so slowly & gently that it can hardly be felt. Or it may blow so fast & hard that it smashes buildings & pushes over large trees.
Wind is part of the weather : it turns a hot, moist day into a cool 1 if it blows from a cool area. They blow clouds & carry storms great distances. They are named according 2 the direction from where they blow.
Wind is caused by the uneven heating of the atmosphere by energy from the sun. The sun heats the surface of the earth unevenly. Air above hot areas expands & rises. Air from cooler areas then flows in 2 replace the heated air.

Answer 4

It is formed by the different heating of the earth by the sun. In the tropics, there is much more heating and the air lifts. As it lifts up it is also heated up by water vapor condensing into rain. That has the effect of making thunderstorms and why they are so windy. It is also a main reason that hurricanes blow so hard. When the air rises it is generally called a low pressure system and the air is deflected clockwise or counterclockwise (northern hemisphere) by a force known as the coriolis effect. All that air rising has to go down somewhere and much of it goes down in the desert and the polar regions. When air is going down in a high pressure region it is deflected clockwise in the northern hemisphere.

Answer 5

wind is a mother nature in this Earth and they form by it heat of the sun .

Answer 6

molecules move from higher concentration to lower concentration. that's the basic principle of diffusion. about winds, you have warm masses of air and cold masses of air, and the colder air moves to hotter air because there is more air molecules in cold air. warm masses of air arm warm because they are heated by the sun's rays.

Answer 7

it is mostly heated air rising and the cool air takes its place...there is also the Coriolis effect of the earth spinning...look it up on Wikipedia.