MILWAUKEE -- Probably, at some point in your life, you've seen a weather map similar to the picture below. It has red Ls and blue Hs all over the place, representing low and high pressure. Looking ...

Wind has been at the forefront of *** lot of people's minds over the last few weeks and for good reason we had some gusts around sacramento over 60 mph as some of those storms came through. But have ...

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The basic answer to this question is related pressure. Wind is simply moving air caused by differences in air pressure in the atmosphere. The difference in pressure over some distance is called a ...

Pressure gradient...sounds like an interesting combination of words right? So what is a pressure gradient and how does it affect you? First lets start by breaking down each word...Pressure: in this ...

How winds finally end up blowing the way they do results from a fascinating interplay of different forces, each acting on different length and time scales. Aa Aa Aa The ancient Greeks believed that ...

Our main concern in this article has to do with the relationship of a pressure system to its surroundings. Air pressure can be measured (atm, hectopascal, millibar) but the relative difference between ...

THE relation between the wind and the pressure distribution is a fundamental question of dynamical meteorology. In qualitative form it is expressed by Buys Ballot's well-known law that in the northern ...