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Is it possible for wind to travel faster than the speed of sound, and if so what does it act/sound like?

Are there any examples/observations of this occurring? For a follow up question, is there a sonic boom of any sort? I know that sonic booms are caused when an object is traveling faster than the sound waves propagating away from the object. The waves cause an immense pressure and collapse on themselves, creating a "boom".
gpt
You are comparing apples and oranges. Wind speed is the speed of the bulk motion of matter relative to an external stationary observer. In principle, wind speed is no different than the speed of a train or of a comet aside from the fact that the matter is air. There is no limit to speed of wind (other than c) and it is frame dependent. In contrast, the speed of sound is the speed of a mechanical wave propagating in a medium, relative to the medium itself. It is therefore an internal property of the medium and is frame independent. 

To answer your question: of course wind can travel faster than the speed of sound in the air, and it does not lead to anything bizarre, unless it collides with stationary objects which would then create a sonic boom. Look at it this way: a jet flying through stationary air faster than the speed of sound and creating a sonic boom is equivalent to wind blowing faster than the speed of sound past a stationary jet. That is the fundamental operating principle behind wind tunnels.