Have you ever noticed how when you put your hand near a hot stove, it feels warm even though you’re not touching it? That’s because of something called convection currents.

Imagine you have a pot of soup on the stove. When you heat up the pot, the soup closest to the bottom gets hot first. When the soup gets hot, it starts to rise up and the cooler soup from the top sinks down to the bottom. This creates a circular motion that helps to spread the heat around the whole pot of soup.

The same thing happens in the air around us! When something gets heated up, like the air from the sun shining on the ground, that hot air rises up and cooler air sinks down to take its place. And that’s how we get wind and weather patterns!