Wind dies down at night?
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This is not a simple answer to explain in one or two sentences, so I will give it in two parts.  First, the basic reason:\n\nOvernight, the breezy conditions that was on the surface is lifted upwards.  This is because the surface becomes very stable with the loss of daytime heating.  The wind will blow above this layer of stable air until after sunrise when daytime heating will bring the winds back to the surface.\n\nNow the more detailed explaination.  In general, wind at night will decouple from the surface if...\n-there is no strong subsidence (sinking of air) like what you will find behind a strong upper level disturbance.\n-there is strong mixing (unstable airmass) in and ahead of a storms system\n-there is strong surface winds with upper level support. (winds blowing from the same direction through a deep layer above the surface)\n-near ridge or hill tops\n\n(Assuming no major weather changes are expected to occur overnight...)  During the night, with the loss of daytime heating, we lose two parameters that will keep the winds blowing near the surface.  The thermal gradient usually becomes weak and the surface cools.  A thin stable layer forms near the surface as heat rises to the top of this layer.  With time, this layer will thicken as warm air continues to leave the lower layer and replace by cooler air.  The top of this layer, you will find a temperature inversion.  This layer will seperate the higher winds that has lifted higher in the atmosphere and the very stable and near calm winds below.  Once the sun rises, the surface warms and starts to mix.  This will break the inversion and the winds will start to mix back down to the surface.  \n\nThis is also the reason why during the winter, sometimes you will find ground fog forming in a thin layer during the evening and then lifting to a low cloud or stratus right by sunrise; then "burning" off during the day.
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Visit www.windfile.com
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hmmm,Are you breaking wind? could be the cause and effect!\nIf this condition persists see your doctor!
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There could be a problem with your wind-pipe. Go see a doctor if it persists again tomorrow. Try taking deep breaths for as long as you can and slowly breathe out or breath in and out into a plastic bag with your mouth closed, it seems to help at times.
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Unless you want to look at the moon,  you want a calm clear night with NO moon.  So, a night with low humidity, no to little breeze (causes turbulance in the light you see), and you want it dark.. so no moon or near new moon.  If it's too cold, there may be ice crystals in the air and that causes a halo around things.\n\nThe higher up in the atmosphere you can get the better.  \n\nIf you want to see a certain thing, you have to wait till that thing is directly overhead to see it most clearly.  That way you are looking through as little air as possible.
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It heats up the atmosphere in the day time and at night when there is no sun, heat rises from the ground creating disturbances in the atmoshpere, aka wind. The same applies to cold air sinking from the upper layers of the atmosphere to the ground.
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I heard there was one in the covington/ Abita springs area. Scary weather last night hu ?
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Day breaks, night falls
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It stopes before comes down
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night fall\nday break
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Charlie is right. Wind is named by the direction they are coming from. Easterly winds are coming from the east.\n\nPilot humor just got to love it. Hope you have many many tailwinds. :)
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Call newschannel 3, I bet they would look into it.  Royal Norman may even already have an answer.  I have not seen them, though I live very close to you.  I'll have to keep my eye on the SE sky.  Do they occur at a certain time, or various times?  Are they low to the horizon?
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Yes I'm sick of this. It's 6-6-6 over here and so far, nothing has happened. The sky is a bit cloudy though but that's pretty normal.
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maybe.  the rain has slowed but a storm warning is in effect till about midnight here in chicago
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It's incredibly windy here in Skelmanthorpe in West Yorkshire....just had to rescue one of my bamboo plants which had been blown over...and it's in a big pot too!\n11:15 pm
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For the most part the wind will blow the fog away.   However here in the Mohawk Valley, I have seen windy fog.
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Sounds like static electricty, which tends to develop in windy dry conditions.  Check it out.