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How much does the atmosphere compress in the direction the Earth is traveling?

I was sitting outside enjoying a bit of rare sunshine on this winter day when I thought about how the earth is traveling around the sun counter-clockwise, and the earth itself is rotating counter clockwise.  

So if I sit on my porch on a cold winter day looking up at the noon day sun with my head pointed north and my feet to the south, then the porch, my house and the planet I'm sitting on are all traveling through space to my right or to the west at about 107,300 km/h from what wikipedia and google tell me.

So as the earths atmosphere travels through space, does the it compress in the direction it's traveling and extend in the opposite direction, something like a tear drop?  

I imagine on the one hand it would compress a lot given the speed and size of the planet and how compressible air is, but I guess it also depends on how empty the vacuum of space really is.

I assume it gets at least a little compressed.  Would it be just a few miles or almost unmeasurable?

How has this been determined?  Would a simple air pressure gauge measure it, or do you need something fancier to be sure of your measurements?
 
Thanks for you answers everyone.
gpt
Compress against what? The biggest thing of Earth's that is distorted is the magnetic field, and that is done by the sun's spray of radiation. The Earth (and its atmosphere) are already settled into a stable orbit, undergoing a constant acceleration from going around in a circular path. If we were somehow able to induce an acceleration of only the earth, then the atmosphere would respond. But, the only thing that could influence earth like that is gravity, and that would affect the atmosphere just as much, so we wouldnt see any effects.