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)
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