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why does air flow from high pressure to low pressure?why don't it go exactally opposite?

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When a low pressure area interacts with a high pressure area, the air tries to move to equalize. There is more relative energy in the higher pressure area, so it moves toward the lower pressure area. The movement is what creates wind.

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