Explain how a breeze at at the bottom of a hill can become a strong wind...

Explain how a breeze at at the bottom of a hill can become a strong wind at the top of a hill

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It is a type of natural occuring phenomena.The breeze flowing down tge hill take a shape of violent and strong wind at the top of the hill or mountain. Air flowing across a mountain range usually rises relatively smoothly up the slope of the range, but, once over the top, it pours down the other side with considerable force, bouncing up and down, creating eddies and turbulence and also creating powerful vertical waves that may extend for great distances downwind of the mountain range. This phenomenon is known as a mountain wave. Note the up and down drafts and the rotating eddies formed downstream.The severity of the mountain wave and the height to which the disturbance of the air is affected is dependent on the strength of the wind, its angle to the range and the stability or instability of the air. The most severe mountain wave conditions are created in strong airflows that are blowing at right angles to the range and in stable air. A jet stream blowing nearly perpendicular to the mountain range increases the severity of the wave condition.The mountain wave phenomenon is not limited only to high mountain ranges, such as the Rockies, but is also present to a lesser degree in smaller mountain systems and even in lines of small hills.

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