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When it moves quickly enough for you to feel it on your face, it is caled wind. Some winds blow over smal areas. Other winds never stop flowing around the whole planet. Blowing i n t h e wind Superfast winds Bands of high-speed winds caled jet streams blowfr om west to east in the uper parts o f the tropospher e . They are so strong that pilots can cut hours of their flight times if they fly along with them.

stream over the Sahara Desert in Egypt . OceanofPDF.com Blasted sideways It takes strong, steady winds to make a tree grow like this. The wind pushes against it day after day , s o the tree grows thicker and stronger on t h e side facing the wind. This makes it bend away from the wind.

around b y fier ce winds, it can wear away solid rock. This leaves behind stra nge shapes, such as this limestone r o ck formation in Egypt . h e s t r o n g e s t w n d s a n u p r o o t t r e e s e a s y .

OceanofPDF.com Lightning flashes can happen inside a cloud, between two clouds, or between a cloud a n d the ground. Extremely l o ng lightning flashes are know n a s megaflashes. g h t n n g h e a t s u p t h e a r , m a k n OceanofPDF.com the ground below , such as a tal building or a tr e e . e e r shelter from a storm underneath a tr ee!

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