Perhaps this fact caused Neanderthal weather-gripers to survive while their less clever brethren fought over sexual partners and dominance. Perhaps being meteorologically inclined is a powerful survival mechanism. The wind s blowing outside. When it blows hard like this, it sounds like the ocean. Of course, that s because it really is an ocean .
Gases operate for the most part by the same physical laws that liquids do.
The atmosphere is really a big ocean that covers our planet with all the attendant currents and tides and such various behaviors that we normally attribute only to bodies of water. In the water ocean, the upper class fish get to swim around the way birds do in our ocean of air. Why some of them can even defy gravity for short periods and like the space shuttle, sparkle for a while in the sun before falling back to earth. Perhaps this is why we are so captivated by flying fish and dolphins, creatures of the deep blue sea who by supreme effort can break the bonds of their element and taste true freedom. Glued as we are to the fundament by cursed gravity, we sometimes feel jealous of these simple creatures to whom, like birds in the sky, God gave the gift of flight.