Low-level wind shear came under scrutiny after an Air France Airbus flying from Paris on Aug. 2, 2005, landed roughly in heavy weather at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport with 297 ...

Wind shear, characterised by abrupt changes in wind speed or direction, poses a significant threat during the critical phases of aircraft take-off and landing. Recent advances in meteorological ...

El Niño’s and La Niña’s influence Wind shear becomes a hot topic during El Niño years, when wind shear tends to be stronger over the Atlantic during hurricane season.

Their research shows that Caribbean wind shear has a negative relationship to overall Atlantic hurricane activity – that is when Caribbean wind shear is high, basin wide hurricane activity tends ...

Saharan dust, wind shear limiting tropical development in early July At least in the short term, the tropics should remain quiet, according to both the National Hurricane Center and AccuWeather.

For a tropical system to become powerful, wind shear needs to be weak or non-existent, as the stronger winds aloft will blow the upper-level circulation away from the low-level center of the storm.

Supercells can achieve frightening intensity and longevity Supercells are thunderstorms with rotating updrafts. They gain this rotation due to wind shear, or winds changing speed and direction ...

Tropical depression Jangmi encountered the moderate to strong southeasterly vertical wind shear in the Sulu Sea, and NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured photos of the phenomenon on Wednesday.