Re: [at-l] Oh Bother!

[WH HAWKINS <WHHAWKINS@aol.com>]

In a message dated 98-04-20 21:25:37 EDT, you write:

> From:	jdsawyer@bu.edu (Jennifer Delia Sawyer)
>  Sender:	owner-at-l@saffron.hack.net
>  To:	at-l@saffron.hack.net
>  
>  The utter simplicity of the question I am about to ask is quite amusing.
>  But, for the life of me, I couldn't come up with an answer.  
>  
>  What is wind?
>  
>  Yup, that's it.  "What is wind?"  This thought came to me Saturday
afternoon
>  sitting atop Mt. Welch, with the "wind" whipping by my ears, and I realized
>  that "wind" itself isn't a tangible thing (in my mind anyway).  We usually
>  define "wind" by its effects (seeing it blow a flag or feeling it in our
>  hair) but what IS it actually????

   All winds, from gentle breezes to raging hurricanes, are caused by
differences in the temperature of the atmosphere, by rotation of the Earth,
and by unequal heating of the continents and the oceans. 

Wildbill
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