Why does the wind blow towards the storm ?

Question

towering thunder clouds always grow above the hills and then after they are huge the wind stars blowing towards it why is this?

Answer 1

Hmm, well, thunderstorms can be small-scale low pressure areas.  Air warmed in contact with the ground rises inside a storm, condenses into a cloud and then rises even faster as the latent heat of condensation is released, until the updraft reaches an equilibrium level. So that causes air to be drawn into the storm at the surface, which might be what you're seeing.  But once rain forms, it drags cool air down with it as it falls, and the cool air spreads out away from the storm, and makes the wind blow away from it.  It's possible to have rain blowing into a storm on one side and out of it on the other.  You just happen to be in the place where it blows toward it all the time.

Answer 2

The pressure inside of a storm system is almost always lower than that of the surrounding air, and so the wind blows from the high pressure surrounding air into the lower pressure of the storm.

Answer 3

It's called the inflow.

Storm have an outflow and an inflow. Warm moist air rises into the storm and the exhaust or out flow is the rain cooled air sinking and flowing out of the storm

The air flowing into the storm is what you are experiencing.

You usually only experience the inflow when you are at the back of the storm. here is a chart...

http://www.kb8sew.net/images/skywarn/tsd...