Berita Hari Ini: Wind doesn't actually make noise


	April 13, 2026

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Wind itself is silent.

On a windy day, the air seems to announce its presence everywhere at once: rattling windows, rustling leaves, and howling through treetops. But what we hear on a gusty day isn’t the moving air itself. You may have noticed that wind rushing down a city street sounds very different from wind sweeping across an open plain or a mountaintop. And that’s because the physics behind what we hear is more complicated — and surprising — than it may seem.

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		Numbers Don't Lie

Speed (in mph) of the fastest recorded non-tornado wind on Earth

253

Year Bette Midler’s “Wind Beneath My Wings” won two Grammy Awards

1990

Categories on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale

Tornadoes in the U.S. each year

~1,200

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The idiom “tilting at windmills” comes from "Don Quixote."

In one memorable episode of the 1604 novel by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, the title character mistakes windmills for fearsome giants and charges at them with his lance. Today the phrase “tilting at windmills” means battling imaginary enemies or pursuing an unrealistic goal. The novel also birthed the term “quixotic,” which refers to someone who is foolishly idealistic and impractical.