Scott Gunter

Does Barry want to come back for a graduate degree or something?

Like, holy analysis, that is awesome.

A few notes maybe, but in general, like, that's really impressive.

There's one force in particular that really drives wind, and we call that the pressure gradient force.

It's just changes in atmospheric pressure.

And we live at the bottom of an atmospheric swimming pool.

Just like if you dove underwater in a pool, you can feel that pressure of all that water pushing down on you.

Yes, a thousand percent.

Yeah, you got it.

And there are areas of high pressure, low pressure that are approaching one another or interacting with one another.

If we think about an area of low pressure, that is typically an area of rising air.

that rising air causes other air to flow inward toward it.

And then that leads to a whole other array of atmospheric interactions that lead to thunderstorms and rain.

And so areas of low pressure are stormy and windy, while areas of high pressure are less windy and kind of clear skies, not stormy.

So those areas of low pressure are essentially being driven by the jet stream.

This river of very fast moving winds way, way above our heads, top of the troposphere.

That's essentially our storm track.

And that's one reason why Kentucky sees a lot of that is we're part of that storm track.

A lot of areas of low pressure form in Texas and Oklahoma.

scoot right up the Ohio Valley into the northeast.