The Wind Wind can tell us many things about weather conditions. A person knowledgeable about local weather can take the temperature and dew point, wind data and altimeter setting and make a pretty good estimate of what the present weather is. He can throw away all but the wind and still give you an approximate weather outlook. There is a simple key to understanding wind: Variations in pressure from place to place create wind, because …showed first 75 words of 1653 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1653 total…descends and is compressionally warmed”(online weather studies, p.129). Bibliography Bibliography “Forecast U.S. Winds” The Weather Channel. May 2000. http://www.weather.com/ Null, Jan. “Winds of the Wind.” Weatherwise. May/June 2000. http://www.weatherwise.org/00mj.null.html Ruzic, David N. “Lecture-Discussion #8 on Wind Energy.” Board of Trustees University of Illinois. 1998. http://starfire.ne.uiuc.edu/ne201/course/topics/wind/ (14 May. 2000). Tran, Diem, and Bernard A. Blair. Online Weather Studies. Boston: American Meteorology Society, 1999.