air has a high kinetic energy due to the temperature - average random motion of air molecules.
air molecules just bounce around naturally to cause temperature.
at colder temperatures air molecules have slower speeds and at higher temperatures air molecules move faster.
temperature and kinetic energy are related - high temperature means high kinetic energy, low temperature is lower kinetic energy.
lower kinetic energy also means bounces off walls are weaker - so if you blow up a balloon and put it in the freezer, the balloon will shrink because the bounces against the wall are weaker/slower.
it's from temperature.
So wouldn't clouds have less kinetic energy than dry wind? But still not slow enough to be affected by the moon, I guess?
What about rain? Same idea? Wind pushes it more than gravity. Why doesn't this apply to the oceans too? They aren't still. I still think the oceans have more kinetic energy than the atmosphere, there is just so much more mass moving around. (Due to wind/temperature.)
If we go back to land tides, then we should see land masses rising as they have even less kinetic energy than the atmosphere and the oceans, right?
It doesn't seem right to me.
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