Areas with greater isobaric packing indicate higher winds. Surface analysis of the Great Blizzard of 1888. Wind affects animals' food stores, as well as their hunting and defensive strategies. When combined with cold temperatures, the wind has a negative impact on livestock.

Winds can disperse seeds from various plants, enabling the survival and dispersal of those plant species, as well as flying insect populations. Wind also affects the spread of wildfires. Dust from large deserts can be moved great distances from its source region by the prevailing winds winds that are accelerated by rough topography and associated with dust outbreaks have been assigned regional names in various parts of the world because of their significant effects on those regions. Winds can shape landforms, via a variety of aeolian processes such as the formation of fertile soils, for example loess, and by erosion. When winds become strong, trees and human-made structures can be damaged or destroyed.

Areas of wind shear caused by various weather phenomena can lead to dangerous situations for aircraft. Hot air balloons use the wind to take short trips, and powered flight uses it to increase lift and reduce fuel consumption. Wind powers the voyages of sailing ships across Earth's oceans. In human civilization, the concept of wind has been explored in mythology, influenced the events of history, expanded the range of transport and warfare, and provided a power source for mechanical work, electricity, and recreation. The strongest observed winds on a planet in the Solar System occur on Neptune and Saturn. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the Sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space.

Long-duration winds have various names associated with their average strength, such as breeze, gale, storm, and hurricane. Strong winds of intermediate duration (around one minute) are termed squalls. Short bursts of high speed wind are termed gusts. In meteorology, winds are often referred to according to their strength, and the direction from which the wind is blowing. The wind is also a critical means of transportation for seeds, insects, and birds, which can travel on wind currents for thousands of miles. Winds have various aspects: velocity ( wind speed) the density of the gas involved energy content, or wind energy. Winds are commonly classified by their spatial scale, their speed and direction, the forces that cause them, the regions in which they occur, and their effect. In coastal areas the sea breeze/land breeze cycle can define local winds in areas that have variable terrain, mountain and valley breezes can prevail. Within the tropics and subtropics, thermal low circulations over terrain and high plateaus can drive monsoon circulations. The two main causes of large-scale atmospheric circulation are the differential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet ( Coriolis effect). Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting a few hours, to global winds resulting from the difference in absorption of solar energy between the climate zones on Earth. Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Cherry tree moving with the wind blowing about 22 m/sec (about 79 km/h or 49 mph)

Wind ambience