How Do We Know When Air Moves?

Have you ever seen leaves blowing around outside? Have you ever flown a kite or watched the trees move from side to side? What is making these things move? When the air outside around us is moving we call it wind. Let’s watch some live data from the WeatherSTEM unit at Florida State University and see if we can find evidence of wind.

Sky video from the FSU WeatherSTEM unit

Questions:

  • Can you see evidence of moving air or wind?
  • What evidence did you find?