Science Common Sense

1298 - Why does air pressure difference cause air to flow and produce wind.

Imagine you have a big balloon that's filled with air. When the air inside the balloon spreads out evenly, the pressure is the same everywhere inside.

Now, imagine there's a place with high air pressure and another place with low air pressure. This is like a big balloon where the air inside is squished and packed tightly (high pressure), and a smaller balloon where the air isn't squished as much (low pressure).

Air likes to move from the squished balloon (high pressure) to the smaller balloon (low pressure), so it can relax and spread out. This movement of air from high to low pressure is what we feel as wind.

So, when there's a difference in air pressure, air flows from the high-pressure area to the low-pressure area to balance it out. That's why we get wind!