Oh, Wind

The wind is an interesting thing. A Walk to Remember (yes, I did watch that movie and ok I guess I kind of liked it) says that, "you cant touch it, you can't see it, but you can feel it." Way to state the obvious, movie. Wind is something rather amazing to me. Prior to my geography class I had no desire to understand where wind comes from. Now that I know what it is caused by, it has peaked my interest in it a little bit. I have found out that there are different types of winds. There are winds that come from the ocean, there are winds that come down from the mountains, etc. Land-sea breezes are caused by the different heating levels of land and the water. I did not know that heating characteristics could cause wind. I took a Walk to Remember approach to wind, thinking that it just was. After almost completely geography class, I know that the winds are caused by certain specific things in the weather. There are local winds, Katabatic winds, Monsoonal winds, etc. A lot of different things regarding the earth go into forming winds. I have found that wind a long with many other geographical features are caused by the combination of elements. Everything on Earth works together; without the world being in perfect sync our planet as we know it would not be functional.