Why don't wind blow in a straight line?

Answer 1

Wind doesn't blow in a straight line primarily due to the Earth's rotation and the presence of various obstacles on the Earth's surface. The Coriolis effect, caused by the Earth's rotation, deflects wind patterns, creating curved paths instead of straight lines. Additionally, the uneven heating of the Earth's surface by the sun leads to the formation of high and low-pressure systems, which further influence wind direction and create patterns of movement rather than straight-line paths. Lastly, obstacles such as mountains, buildings, and vegetation can cause wind to change direction and flow around them, contributing to the irregularity of wind patterns.

Answer 2

How many years do you have for the answer? I can give you the barest concepts, but that is a very deep subject. I'll start with the largest scale issues and then develop some of the concepts that control mid-latitude synoptic scale flow. On a large scale, the wind in the tropics comes from the east, while in the mid latitudes it comes from the west. This is a manifestation of angular momentum conservation. At the equator, the earth is moving at about 1670 km/hr from west to east, while the speed drops with the cosine of the latitude, so at 45 degrees north (or south) it is moving at 0.707*1670 = 1180 km/hr. The air largely moves along with the ground speed, but in the mid latitudes there is air mixing from the tropics, which causes it to move a little faster than the ground, so it runs ahead, which means it seems to come from the west. The air in the tropics is moving a little slower that the ground, so it comes from the east. In the mid latitudes, the average day would have the air coming from due west. For complex reasons the air tends to form wavy loops, so that at some points it blows from the northwest and sometimes it blows from the southwest. Mid latitude easterlies aren't impossible, however. Usually they come from a cyclonic (counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern) passing on your equator-ward side. Put your right hand on a weather map (left in the Southern Hemisphere), with the pinky side of your hand on the map and your thumb pointing up. Your fingers show the way the wind blows around a low. Even though the large scale flow is from west-to-east, locally the wind can be from the east.

Answer 3

Physics says that wind should move in a straight line from higher to lower pressure, but the rotating Earth causes the straight-line wind to curve as it flows. This is called the "coriollis effect."

Answer 4

Wind does not blow in a straight line because of various factors such as the Earth's rotation, friction with the Earth's surface, and the presence of different pressure systems. These factors cause the wind to curve and change direction as it flows across the globe.

Answer 5

Air masses move from high to low pressure, so wind is just air masses moving from high to low pressure.This is a use full answer and u guys know it

Answer 6

wind doesnt blow in straight because of different air pressure from different direction

Answer 7

The wind in a Tropical revolving storm blows in a particular direction; because of the earths CORIOLIS FORCE.

Answer 8

• Differences in pressure
• Differences in temperature

Answer 9

It blows from a higher pressure area to a lower one.