It’s literally howling outside my window right now and it got me wondering how is the wind even formed? Like what kinds of nature mechanisms create it lol
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Basically one place gets hot from sunlight, hot air rises, this causes a low pressure in the heated area. Higher pressure areas around that area swirls towards the lower pressure area.
That’s the super short version, there’s also some stuff with how the earth spinning creates vortexes via the [https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/coriolis-effect/](https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/coriolis-effect/) effect which is why wind commonly comes from the same direction(at least some places that’s the case)
Very basically.
Differences in air temperature/pressure on different parts of the globe cause air to move from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
The sun warms up the surface of the planet. As the surface gets warmer the air above it gets warmer and rises. This decreases the air pressure. As the air pressure has reduced a bit air from elsewhere flows into the lower pressure region. This flow of air is wind.
Wind is air moving from a higher pressure region to a lower pressure region.
The earth’s surface is uneven, so the sun’s warming of that surface is also uneven. That sort of kicks off all the stuff other people have explained.
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