Do you know what causes wind? Well, broadly speaking it’s the sun... but more specifically, how the sun unevenly heats the Earth’s surface. That leads to areas of high and low pressure forming, and in ...
Changes in atmospheric pressure causes the air to move as winds, and the more significant the pressure difference, the ...
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Weather Words: Pressure Gradient

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MILWAUKEE -- Probably, at some point in your life, you've seen a weather map similar to the picture below. It has red Ls and blue Hs all over the place, representing low and high pressure. Looking ...
Those gusty winds bedeviling Northern California this week are a typical sign of seasonal transition as spring yields to summer, meteorologists said yesterday. Strong winds are the inevitable result ...