wind pattern
How gusts move
A wind pattern is the characteristic direction and behavior of air movement over a region or time period.
Meteorologists study wind patterns to forecast weather and track storms.
Global wind patterns like the trade winds and westerlies shape climate zones.
Sailors learned to read wind patterns for ocean crossings.
Local wind patterns affect everything from wildfire spread to city pollution levels.
- breezeLight, gentle air movement
- sea breezeWind from ocean to land
- gustBrief wind surge
- currentDirected flow of charge
- airflowMovement of atmosphere
jet stream · monsoon · circulation · prevailing · westerlies · cyclone · anticyclone · polar vortex · vortex · eddy · drift · swirl · weather · weather front · barometric · pressure · high pressure · low pressure
- Earth systemsbiosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, geosphere
- coastal windssea breeze, land breeze
- weatherweather, rain, sun, snow, cloud
- climateclimate change, climate, weather, global warming, temperature
- climate patternsEl Nino, La Nina, ice age, warming, cooling
wind patternturbulence
Chaotic flow patterns
gusty conditions · atmospheric turbulence · wind shear · squalls · shifting winds
wind patterndead calm
Complete absence of wind
stillness · windlessness · doldrums · stagnant air · still air
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