Where does wind come from? I thought it came from clouds but I’ve just had two really windy days with no clouds in sight
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It comes from higher pressure cells moving into lower pressure cells. Essentially when some portion of the atmosphere or air gains heat energy it becomes excited and tends to expand and move around which can displace some colder areas of the atmosphere…it exerts force and movement. Molecules are bumping into each other and swirling and flowing and pushing each other along. The warmer the air is the more space is going to take up and the colder the air is the less space is going to take up, so warm air has higher pressure and cold air has lower pressure. The heat tends to want to transfer to the cold so higher pressure cells are drawn to lower pressure cells and that can produce molecular/atmospheric movement that we feel as wind.
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