I tried Google, they didn’t give me a clear enough answer. So someone please explain it
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When there’s wind, air is moving in one direction. When there’s turbulence, air is moving in different directions, usually in big and small swirls. It often happens when wind encounters objects, or other winds moving in different directions or at different speeds.
I skydive, and we’re wary of turbulence close to the ground, as it can mess up our landings and even hurt us. On a windy day, the leeward side of trees and buildings may have turbulence. On hot still days, roofs and asphalt may have turbulence from thermals. Airplanes and other parachutes have turbulence behind them. Dust devils have turbulence that can stretch much farther up than the visible dust. Cumulus clouds can also have turbulence inside and near them, because they’re blobs of rising air, but they’re normally at safe altitudes. I’ve ridden a plane above a particularly tall cumulus cloud, and it was like riding on a really rough gravel road. Falling down the side of the mountainous cloud was epic though.
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