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Why does the wind at the beach often reverse direction after the sun goes down?
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∙ 8y ago
The wind you are referring to is the localised breeze felt on and near the shoreline. During the day, when the sun shines, the land warms up more quickly than the sea, so the air over the land warms, expands and becomes less dense so it rises. Cooler air from over the sea moves in to replace it, and we feel a cooling sea breeze. As night falls, the land and the air over it cool more rapidly than the sea and its air, so pretty soon the situation is reversed and air flows out from the land. This is the land breeze.
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