“Wind forms when the sun heats one part of the atmosphere differently than another part. This causes expansion of warmer air, making less pressure where it is warm than where it is cooler. Air always moves from high pressure to lower pressure, and this movement of air is wind.” source
aka the sun's discrimination makes air go woosh
When one area cools, the air their contracts, when another area warms, it expands
When it contacts, it pulls, when it warms, it pushes.
According to the link in the top comment (sorry for caps, copied it out of the image): COOL AIR TRAVELS TOWARDS WARM AIR OVER LAND.
So the warm air does push, but it pushes upwards (rises). Cool, low pressure air, then fills the void.
This clarification brought to you by another non-expert in the field. Ha
To add to others, wind also is generated when a rain "microburst" occurs.This happens frequently in the southwest U.S.
A microburst is when a very large amount of water is dropped out of the clouds. The gaining rain speed pushes the air below it out of the way. The air is pushed outward horizontal to the ground, which in essence is a massive wall of wind.
Often in the Sonoron desert a microburst causes the wind to push a lot of dirt from the ground surface to be blown out with the wind. When this happens it's called a haboob. The wall of thick dust and particles can be up to a mile high and as wide as a city.
Below is a link to an image of a haboob over Phoenix, Arizona.
Thats interesting.
Wait a minute..... is that the photo
You
It's easier to think about it in terms of where is the wind going.
Air moves into adjacent regions that have lower pressure. It begins everywhere but is moving towards these areas of lower pressure.
All weather is a result of heat exchange and pressure differentials caused by an unequally heated atmosphere. (The side toward the sun is warmer.)
For mere mortals: various exposed land masses gets heated by sunlight, and the air in contact with that land gets heated too.
When air gets warmer it expands (because atoms move and collide faster). That makes it less dense, so colder and denser air (with its slower atoms) falls in under the warm air and pushes the warm air up. If the ground is still warmer then that cold air gets heated too.
When that happens just at one point it makes air move around that warm ground in a "donut shape", up in the center and out and down and back in.
When that happens at many different locations then those air movements collide with each other, and now we have complicated weather which takes big supercomputers to simulate.
Pressure differential from high and low pressure systems in the weather pattern.
Where does an ocean wave start?
All currents are circular when you zoom out far enough, and are driven by inequalities in energy. Inequalities in thermal energy, for wind, and wind energy, for waves. Inequalities in voltage drive electrical current, which is remarkable fluid like, in its behavior.
Terry Pratchett taught me that wind is caused by all of the trees waving about.
Now that one makes sense
After last night’s beans
Gods farts
Where does a circle start? Just pick a point on the cycle and go around from there.
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO...
The Coriolis force contributes to large-scale wind movements such as hurricanes.
I don't think it's relevant to the creation of the wind. Just its direction.
Uh, the sun? Wind is continuous
The Wind Waker
With the beginning of the universe, mate.
its about temperature, hot air rises. the air changing temperature causes abrupt movement in columns of air
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