As a child I wondered what it was that was pushing the air and turning it into wind. Whatever it is keeps itself out of sight. You never see what is back there pushing it. I know it has many speeds, from gentle breeze to gale forces, which is faster than breezes, and when it has ocean under it, waves get made. Just like when there is desert below it, dunes are formed. Air can do all of that, given the right push.
Of course, there is
an ugly side to all of this, the part no one cares to talk about, when tree
branches get so shaken up by the wind that little bird nests fall to the
ground. Kite strings snap, sending a
child’s kite to oblivion. Not to mention
when Betsy gets all dressed up for the school dance, but between getting out of
the car and entering the gym, Mr. Wind makes a mess out of her hair, so when
she walks in she looks like she has just left the spin cycle in the clothes
dryer.
The other part of air we can't see are the different currents. Some are very long and forceful, and some are different temperatures, which is strange, because there are also currents in the ocean and yet not pushed by anything.
What I see happening here is that the pushing aspect can be very specific. It isn't pushing all the air but just this little bit, causing an airstream that travels through slower moving air. That gets more complicated than my thinking allows for. Just how can a force push only a specific section and not another?
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I was going to make an air pun, but it blew right past me.
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