Why does the weather move faster than the earth spins.?
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I guess you don't know how fast the Earth spins.\n\nFind that out and you will have a different question.\n\nHOW FAST IS THE EARTH SPINNING AROUND ITS AXIS?\nThe Earth is spinning around its axis. At the equator, the Earth's surface moves 40,000 kilometers in 24 hours. That is a speed of about 1040 miles/hr (1670 km/hr or 0.5 km/sec). This is calculated by dividing the circumference of the Earth at the equator (about 24,900 miles or 40,070 km) by the number of hours in a day (24). As you move toward either pole, this speed decreases to almost zero (since the circumference of the spinning circle at the extreme latitudes approaches zero).
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Because the sun does rise in the east and set in the west.  \n\nWe do know now that the reason is not because the sun is revolving around the earth, but because the earth spins on its axis.
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On a philosophical level.... I would say it's a natural balance derived from natural occurrences. There are many different forms of weather, but the natural capability of movement shifts in many rotations causing a range of wind that forces climate change and therefore causing dramatic changes and patterns. on more of a documented scientific note I would say:The blanket of air that covers the earth is called\n\n  the atmosphere. The bottom layer of the atmosphere is \n\n  called the troposphere. The troposphere is where all of \n\n  earth’s weather happens. Basically, our weather is \n\n  caused by two things: the sun and moisture in the air.\n\n  These two things together can form clouds, can make rain\n\n  and form thunderstorms, and cause winds to blow. Without\n\n  the sun and moisture in the air, our earth would have no \n\n  weather at all. In fact, there would be no people on our plantet\n\n  \n             Another thing that helps to cause the earths \n\n   Weather is air masses. When two air masses come \n\n   Together, the line between them is called a front. Along a\n\n   Front there is usually clouds, rain, and maybe thunderstorms.\n\n   The movement of air masses helps to cause weather \n\n   almost  as much as the sun and moisture in the air. Without\n\n   air masses, all the earth’s weather would stay in one place
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Because the Earth sucks.  \n\nBa dum bah.\n\nHave you heard of "gravity"?  It isn't just a men's cologne, it's the law!  The gravitational pull of the Earth is much stronger than the effect of centrifugal force (centrifugal force only counteracts gravitational pull by about .34%), so even if the Earth spun three times faster, we would still be standing (and feeling just a little lighter).
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No easily measurable effect. There is a small Coriolis effect when flying north or south, but not when flying east or west. The air and Earth are all rotating as a unit, so except for wind, it is no different than driving on the ground. Wind speed and direction is controlled more by heating from the Sun than anything else, and it can blow in any direction. True, prevailing winds to tend to make for quicker travel in one direction, but that is not what you are talking about I think.
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Good question! I think no because everything moves within the atmosphere. Such as 8 hour long airplanes. If they travel the opposite direction of the earth's rotation, it wouldn't just stay still over the same exact spot over the ocean if it traveled 1000mph. good question, but that's what i predict using prior knowledge. Plus, i think it's gravitational force that makes every object move at the same time along with the earth itself. It may have to do with Earth's magnetic field, i don't know.
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WIND \nAir that flows in relation to the earth's surface, generally horizontally. There are four areas of wind that are measured: direction, speed, character (gusts and squalls), and shifts. Surface winds are measured by wind vanes and anemometers, while upper level winds are detected through pilot balloons, rawin, or aircraft reports. \nWhoosh! You know that wind is moving air. But what causes the air to move? It’s the uneven heating of the earth’s atmosphere. \n\nAs the sun warms the earth’s surface, the atmosphere warms too. Some parts of the earth receive direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm. Other places receive indirect rays, so the climate is colder. Warm air, which weighs less than cool air, rises. Then cool air moves in and replaces the rising warm air. This movement of air is what makes the wind blow.
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First, the speed of the rotation of the earth relative to where you are on the earth.  At the equator, the circumference of the Earth is roughly 24000 miles.  This is convenient, because the Earth rotates about its axis once every 24 hours.  Therefore an hour = 1000 miles of equatorial rotation.  Understand the fastest moving part of the Earth is the equator, since an object on the equator travels 24000 around the earth's Axis every day.  If you are closer to the poles, you are on a "thinner" slice of the earth, where the circumferene may only be 20000miles.  In that case you are moving at 833 miles per hour.  The fact that the Earth moves faster at the Equator than at the poles is responsible for the Coriolus Effect which is really important to people who study meteorology, or who wonder why their toilets get all swirly when flushed.  Why we don't "feel" the rotation is, simply put, because we are rotating exactly the same way as the earth.  In physics, this is called a "frame of reference".  For most intents and purposes, the earth is at "rest" relative to us.  As a human, you make up part of the mass of the earth, and you spin with it in a constant rotation.  It's only when we look to things that are not directly connected to the earth that we really see the effects of it's rotation (ie Tides of water, moments of clouds and weather, etc. . .)  Hope that helps.
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For one thing, it takes the earth 24 hours to complete one full rotation, and the earth has circumference of roughly 24,000 miles, which means the speed of its rotation is appx. 1000 mph...\n\nSo if we did not have a protective atmosphere as we do, winds could be up to 1000 mph. Fortunately we do, so the winds we do experience are usually negligible...
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I answered this yesterday, but...\n\nWhat makes the Earth Spin...\n\nAngular Momentum. Think of a figure skater pulling their arms closer to their body while spinning, sudennly they are spinning VERY fast, then they let their arms out, and they slow down. This is because the arms still have the same amount of rotational energy as they did when they were further from the body, but when they are pulled close, they don't have as far to go to complete one rotation... the radius and circumference are smaller but the distance covered is the same over the same amount of time. This means faster rotation.\n\nHow does that have anything to do with the Earth? Simple. When the Earth formed, it formed by collecting bits of matter from space, and these bits of matter, ranging from dust to huge asteroids and larger, were all like tiny arms, adding rotational energy to the earth as they came in closer and stuck. \n\nRight now, the moon is slowing the earth's rotation as it slowly moves away from the Earth--again, this is the same process. How can this be when the moon doesn't even touch the Earth? Gravity. Gravity makes the earth and moon behave almost as if they were touching. The short explanation is that the center of gravity of the earth-moon system lies just below the surface of the earth, causing tides. Since the moon is moving away, it requires less orbital velocity to maintain it's orbit, and so the tides slow the earth more as the moon's orbital speed slows.\n\nEventually, the earth and Moon may both be tide-locked to each other, and this will happen long before the earth is tide locked to the sun (the tides have slowed rotation of the earth to the point where it always has one side facing the moon (or sun)).\n\nWhat makes the earth not stop spinning?\n\nAs mentioned before, angular momentum. The earth's surface can be slowed, but that energy has to go somewhere--it goes to speeding up the orbital velocity of the moon, which is why the moon is moving further from the earth...\n\nThe earth is moving around the sun because of the way the sun and all the other stuff in the solar system formed--from a cloud of gas and dust that collapsed into a spinning disk. The mechanics of the whole thing is still being learned and debated. As long as the Earth keeps moving in a straight line perpendicular to a line drawn between the Earth and the Sun, the Earth will continue to fall toward the Sun (by gravity) at exactly the same speed that it is flying perpendicular, and thus, like a ball on a string, it will follow a curved path around the sun.
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Wind is the roughly horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by uneven heating of the Earth's surface. It occurs at all scales, from local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting tens of minutes to global winds resulting from solar heating of the Earth. The two major influences on the atmospheric circulation are the differential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet (Coriolis effect).\n\nGiven a difference in barometric pressure between two air masses, a wind will arise between the two which tends to flow from the area of high pressure to the area of low pressure until the two air masses are at the same pressure, although these flows will be modified by the Coriolis effect in the extratropics.\n\nWinds can be classified either by their scale, the kinds of forces which cause them (according to the atmospheric equations of motion), or the geographic regions in which they exist. There are global winds, such as the wind belts which exist between the atmospheric circulation cells. There are upper-level winds, such as the jet streams. There are synoptic-scale winds that result from pressure differences in surface air masses in the middle latitudes, and there are winds that come about as a consequence of geographic features such as the sea breeze. Mesoscale winds are those which act on a local scale, such as gust fronts. At the smallest scale are the microscale winds which blow on a scale of only tens to hundreds of metres and are essentially unpredictable, such as dust devils and microbursts.\n\nWinds can also shape landforms, via a variety of eolian processes.
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At similar latitudes, the sun's rays hit the earth with the same intensity. this causes the relative temperatures to be similar. \nOther factors that come into play other than latitude are:\n1) elevation (height above sea level)\n2) proximity to lakes/oceans, (so humidity)\n3) winds (jet streams, currents, etc. that carry weather systems into an area)
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Exactly the same thing as on Earth:  Differential heating caused by the Sun's rays falling on different latitudes of the planet.  This causes the warmer parts of the atmosphere to rise.  Denser atmosphere "blows" in to fill the lower pressure areas (think wind).  If the atmosphere contains materials that can condense(water, vapor, methane, ammonia, etc.) and the temperatures are in the correct range for the atmospheric contents then "weather" occurs.
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Finally, the gravitational pull between the Earth and Sun causes the Earth to travel around, or "orbit", the Sun at a velocity of 29.8 km/sec. At the same time, the Earth also turns on its axis causing the daily cycle of day and night. This "rotational velocity" is approximately .47 km/sec. That means that at the same time we're hurdling through space at nearly 67,000 mph, we're also spinning around in circles at over 1000 mph! Whew! Almost makes you dizzy, doesn't it?
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"Wind is the roughly horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by uneven heating of the Earth's surface."\n\nThe sun heats up the earth's surface, the hot air rises while the cool air sinks, therefore create air movement - which is called wind.
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because the earth rotates on an axis
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Wind is the roughly horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by uneven heating of the Earth's surface. It occurs at all scales, from local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting tens of minutes to global winds resulting from solar heating of the Earth. The two major influences on the atmospheric circulation are the differential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet (Coriolis effect).\n\nGiven a difference in barometric pressure between two air masses, a wind will arise between the two which tends to flow from the area of high pressure to the area of low pressure until the two air masses are at the same pressure, although these flows will be modified by the Coriolis effect in the extratropics.\n\nWinds can be classified either by their scale, the kinds of forces which cause them (according to the atmospheric equations of motion), or the geographic regions in which they exist. There are global winds, such as the wind belts which exist between the atmospheric circulation cells. There are upper-level winds, such as the jet streams. There are synoptic-scale winds that result from pressure differences in surface air masses in the middle latitudes, and there are winds that come about as a consequence of geographic features such as the sea breeze. Mesoscale winds are those which act on a local scale, such as gust fronts. At the smallest scale are the microscale winds which blow on a scale of only tens to hundreds of metres and are essentially unpredictable, such as dust devils and microbursts.