<P> In Cuba similar sea breeze collisions with the northern and southern coasts sometimes lead to storms . </P> <P> At night, the land cools off faster than the ocean due to differences in their heat capacity, which forces the dying of the daytime sea breeze as the temperature of the land approaches that of the ocean . If the land becomes cooler than the adjacent sea surface temperature, the air pressure over the water will be lower than that of the land, setting up a land breeze blowing from the land to the sea, as long as the environmental surface wind pattern is not strong enough to oppose it . If there is sufficient moisture and instability available, the land breeze can cause showers, or even thunderstorms, over the water . Overnight thunderstorm development offshore due to the land breeze can be a good predictor for the activity on land the following day, as long as there are no expected changes to the weather pattern over the following 12--24 hours . This is mainly because the strength of the land breeze is weaker than the sea breeze . The land breeze will die once the land warms up again the next morning . </P>

The breeze that blows from the land toward the sea