Why, in the UK, do we get stronger winds in the Winter? Is it the same in all temperate regions of the Earth?

Question

Why, in the UK, do we get stronger winds in the Winter? Is it the same in all temperate regions of the Earth?

Answer 1

Wind is caused by air flowing from high pressure to low pressure. The closer the high and low pressure areas are together, the stronger the "pressure gradient", and the stronger the winds.

I guess in the winter, the air pressure is lower :0

Answer 2

the air pressure is lower because the temperatures are lower as the sun is over the tropic of capricorn , the southern hemisphere .

Answer 3

Winds are stronger in regions where there is a stronger difference in temperatures horizontally.  There's a huge difference in temperatures between the southern portion of the temperate zones, and the northern reaches in winter.  This kind of atmosphere is called 'baroclinic' by meteorologists, and it describes the atmosphere in temperate regions during their winter.  This temperature difference gives rise to the stormy weather as the atmosphere is trying to even itself out and redistribute the heat from places where heat has accumulated to places where there's not much heat.  Wind is the mechanism that does this.

In summer, temperate regions don't have a very large temperature difference from north to south.  So winds are much lighter.