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It depends on the time of day. The ground heats up and cools more quickly than the sea. When the ground has warmed up more than the sea then air moves towards the land from the sea and heads upwards in a thermal and then downwards again out to sea. At night the opposite happens, as the ground cools the cold air flows down to the sea and again upwards in a thermal. Night sea breezes are usually less windy than in the day as the sun is not pumping energy into the system

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It's caused by the constant motion of the earth. Like water in a small ball, if you set it on a rotating platform, all the water will not rotate at the same speed or in the same direction. Eventually different currents will form, which is what happens with all mass fluids on earth. So as the earth spins, the air is moving in flows and currents, which when lowered near the ground, it's called a breeze until it loses its mass.

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from the cold air above the water towards warm air above land.

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