how does wind and ocean current affect the weather and climate?
Answer Hello– Well, wind in particular is usually considered _part_ of weather and climate, and I suppose ocean currents could also be considered as such. What both of these do is move energy around, in the form of both energy of motion and heat energy. For example, the position of the “jet stream,” a high-altitude region of fast wind, can move north or south and either pull storms with it or block them from where they were going. As for ocean currents, the reason that northern Europe is a lot warmer than northern North America is that Europe has currents bringing warm water up from the south, while North America has currents on either coast that bring cold water down from the arctic regions. Changes in any of these wind or water flow patterns can alter weather, by strengthening or weakening storms, say; the climate is simply the average of weather over many years, so long-term changes in wind or ocean currents would change not just today’s weather, but the overall climate for years t
