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Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On the surface of the Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. 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. Winds are commonly classified by their spatial scale, their speed, the types of forces that cause them, the regions in which they occur, and their effect. The strongest observed winds on a planet in the Solar System occur on Neptune and Saturn. Winds have various aspects, an important one being its velocity; another the density of the gas involved; another is the energy content or wind energy of a wind.
In meteorology, winds are often referred to according to their strength, and the direction from which the wind is blowing. Short bursts of high speed wind are termed gusts. Strong winds of intermediate duration (around one minute) are termed squalls. Long-duration winds have various names associated with their average strength, such as breeze, gale, storm, and hurricane. Wind occurs 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. 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). Within the tropics, thermal low circulations over terrain and high plateaus can drive monsoon circulations. In coastal areas the sea breeze/land breeze cycle can define local winds; in areas that have variable terrain, mountain and valley breezes can dominate local winds.
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When the wind decides that it's time to ride
To spread a little hell through the heartland
It takes a good long toke then it blows the smoke
Through the desert night
And the wings of fire keep climbin' higher
Flames cuttin' hard through the homeland
Takes a mighty strong will to strip the chill
From the desert night
You're wakened from your dream by a siren's scream
Trapped by the walls that surround you
Then it's will to will and you wonder still
Can you struggle free?
In a thousand ways, when you turn the phrase
The wind's like a love of a woman
It takes a mighty mean bitch, some fire witch
To set the night on fire
And the Santa Ana wind's gonna have its way, tonight
Nothing you can do's gonna change her mind
And ain't it a lot like love the way desire takes you in
And stokes the fire like the Santa Ana wind
Now the air is calm and the heart grows numb
The ashes burn low in the heartland
'Til again the wind starts closin' in
To set the night on fire
And the Santa Ana wind's blowin' cross my heart, tonight
Nothing you can do's gonna change her mind
And woman, I want your love, I need that passion deep within
Like the ragin' fire needs the Santa Ana wind
And the Santa Ana wind's gonna take your life tonight
Nothing you can do's gonna change her mind
And ain't it a lot like love, the way desire takes you in