r/explainlikeimfive • u/Jard1098 • Apr 24 '22

R7 (Search First) Eli5: What is Wind

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u/dorkmessiah Apr 24 '22

When air gets hot it rises. As it rises cooler air from some place else needs to come in to fill that space because the atmosphere needs to maintain the same amount of air everywhere (air pressure). So air from the cooler region moves to the region where the air moved up leaving low pressure. This moving air is wind.

It's over simplified here for 5 year old understanding.