Blow me Away in the Wind...

Wind

Days are shorter;
nights are longer,
Few stars here and there...
Branches breaking off, flying around looking, like wizard's broom; with their leaf buddies.
What are you doing wind?
As the wind touches me, the goose bumps pops out to protect me; but it fails. My hair flying away in the wind. It felt like the lonely wind was going to disappear me with it, just like how it disappeared the moon.
The moon was missing!
It almost felt like a tornado. But it wasn't as bad.
It was crazy outside. I didn't stay out there for much. That Wind's noise scared me. It almost sound like the wind was communicating. But does it?
I mean what is wind?
What causes wind?
-Field Notes



http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-wind.htm

 Wind is air in motion. It is produced by the uneven heating of the earth's surface by the sun. Since the earth's surface is made of various land and water formations, it absorbs the sun's radiation unevenly. Two factors are necessary to specify wind:
speed and,
direction.

What really causes the wind to blow is, when the sun warms the earth's surface, the atmosphere warms too. So, some parts of the earth receives direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm.
Warm air, which weighs less than cold air, rises. So, then the cool air moves in and replaces the rising warm air. And this movement of air is what makes the wind to blow.


http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-wind.htm

In the article How Stuff Works?  It said that "In mountainous areas, winds tend to blow uphill during the day because the mountainside is heated more than the valley below it. At night, when the mountainside cools, the wind blows downhill. In summer, breezes tend to blow from oceans or large lakes to the warmer land during the day. They blow from the land at night, when the land cools." (http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/meteorological-terms/wind-info3.htm)

So I found this two different breeze. The two different cycle of wind/breeze:

sea breeze
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-wind.htm

land breeze



Windmill
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-wind.htm

We might hate wind and think it's useless and all. But in reality it is really useful. Wind is the fastest growing source of electricity in the world. It's often one of the least expensive forms of renewable power available. Some experts say it can sometimes be the cheapest form of any kind of power.

I never knew this but, wind has many different names.
On the Weather Wiz Kids website it gave me a list of the names:
"Chinook-(westerly wind off the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains)
Santa Ana-(easterly towards Southern California )
Scirocco-(southerly from North Africa to southern Europe)
Mistral-(northwesterly from central France to Mediterranean)
Marin-(southeasterly from Mediterranean to France)
Bora-(northeasterly from eastern Europe to Italy)    
Gregale-(northeasterly from Greece)
Etesian-(northwesterly from Greece)
Libeccio-(southwesterly towards Italy)"
{http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-wind.htm}

The Wind Chart
This is a chart called "Beaufort Scale" it is where the empirical measure for the wind power is provided. This gives all the information about wind's speed, it's description, and it's conditions as well. This scale was created by a British naval commander "Sir Francis Beaufort" in 1806.
        

Beaufort number	Wind speed MPH	Wind Speed Knots	Description	Sea conditions	Land conditions
0	<1	<1	Calm	Flat	Calm
1	1-3	1-3	Light air	Ripples without crests	Wind motion visible in smoke
2	4-7	4-6	Light breeze	Small wavelets	Leaves rustle
3	8-12	7-10	Gentle breeze	Large wavelets	Smaller twigs in constant motion
4	13-18	11-16	Moderate breeze	Small waves	Small branches begin to move
5	19-24	17-21	Fresh breeze	Moderate longer waves	Smaller trees sway
6	25-31	22-27	Strong breeze	Large waves with foam crests	Large branches in motion
7	32-38	28-33	Near gale	Sea heaps up and foam begins to streak	Whole trees in motion
8	39-46	34-40	Gale	Moderately high waves with breaking crests	Twigs broken from trees
9	47-54	41-47	Severe gale	High waves with dense foam	Light structure damage
10	55-63	48-55	Storm	Very high waves. The sea surface is white	Trees uprooted. Considerable structural damage
11	64-72	56-63	Violent storm	Exceptionally high waves	Widespread structural damage
12	73-82	64-71	Hurricane	Sea completely white with driving spray.	Massive and widespread damage to structure

 http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-wind.htm

 

 

Work Cited

 

"The Wind." How Stuff Works?N.p.n.d.Web.30 Oct.2014.

 

"Wind." Weather Wiz Kids.N.p.n.d.Web.30 Oct.2014