What's the difference between sea breezes and land breezes?

Question

Compare and Contrast.

Answer 1

Consider yourself walking along the beach at sunset, cool sand under your toes where waves wash up as the tide comes in. That "sea breeze" you feel on your cheek comes from afar, blowing from the sea, carrying scents of distant places. Shortly after sunset a "land breeze" will flow from the warmer air over the land out towards the rapidly cooling air over the sea.



sea breeze - from the sea towards shore



land breeze - from the land towards the water

Answer 2

Sea breeze - the breeze moves from the sea towards the land. This usually happens during the day when the land is much hotter than the sea. Land breeze - the breeze moves from the land towards the sea. Opposite to sea breeze, this most likely happen at night. The air at surface of the sea is much hotter than of the air in the land so the heavier cold air (from the land) moves towards the lighter warm air (of the sea).

Answer 3

A sea breeze is a wind from the sea that develops over land. A land breeze is the opposite. It is a wind from land that develops over oceans or water.

Answer 4

there are differences in terms of how they are generated, at what time, and the impact on weather