It’s a story as old as time: wind is the result of the pressure difference between hot areas and cold areas.
I don’t buy it.
Surely there must be more to it than that. If things were really that simple, you would think that there would be a constant Southerly wind in the Northern hemisphere and a continuous Northerly wind in the Southern hemisphere. Also, how does this theory account for gusts? Certain spots of the Earth don’t suddenly get hot for short periods of time.
I did a video screen cap looking at things.
So, through the video, I switched between wind speed, temperature, pressure, and gusts. Wind direction is superimposed on this. Now we really see what is going on. It seems like wind is generally following the high-to-low pressure rule.
One mistake I was making was thinking about temperature and pressure in the context of a limited volume with hard boundaries (like an air bottle being filled with air). The atmosphere is not like that. Therefore, cold air is denser and higher pressure. Of course, there are so many factors in wind formation. Local dynamic interact with larger systems, wind gets squeezed between fronts, etc.