How to Use wind shear in a Sentence

wind shear

noun

• There is also very low wind shear right now in the Gulf.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
• But if the wind shear becomes strong, the destabilization force can win the tug-of-war.
  — Katherine Wright, Scientific American, 1 July 2023
• What happened next made headlines around the country: The plane hit a wind shear as part of a microburst in the storm.
  — Richard Laver, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
• For one, the low wind shear that hurricanes require to form isn’t there yet.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024
• The storm also had plenty of moisture and very little wind shear to stop it.
  — Stacy Morford, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2021
• What's changed since: Doppler radar is now used at airports to detect wind shear and microbursts like the one that brought down the plane.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 9 July 2024
• By then, dry air and strong wind shear prevailed over the oceanic regions where storms form.
  — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• In normal years, wind shear has a better chance of stunting storm growth.
  — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• The trough’s wind shear did catch up with Zeta at landfall, which helped reduce the amount of rainfall on the storm’s west side.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2020
• Mountains, wind shear and a short runway -- Lukla has it all.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 25 Oct. 2021
• That enhances wind shear — a change in wind speed and/or direction with height.
  — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2021
• The main one is that there has to be relatively little wind shear.
  — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2020
• Forecasters said wind shear and dry air have helped to weaken the storm slightly.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 8 Sep. 2023
• At the same time, wind shear, or a change of wind speed and/or direction with height, will be increasing.
  — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
• The trough will increase the intensity of winds aloft, which means wind shear will be on the rise through the afternoon and evening.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2021
• The image below shows the forecast wind shear values at 5 p.m.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 25 July 2022
• This mixes up weather patterns around the world and reduces wind shear in the Atlantic.
  — Bryan Karrick, Orlando Sentinel, 31 May 2022
• The wind shear could also spin up tornadoes in some of the stronger thunderstorms.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 30 Dec. 2020
• According to Klotzbach, June had the lowest wind shear in the southern Atlantic Basin since 1988.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 17 July 2023
• Combine this with wind shear, and strong updrafts can start the rotations.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2024
• Overall, the steering current and wind shear changes increase the risk to the United States, Corbosiero said in an email.
  — Seth Borenstein, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
• High levels of wind shear can tear apart an active storm or prevent one from forming in the first place.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 9 July 2024
• Despite the presence of storm-shredding wind shear in the coming days, the system appears hardy.
  — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• That, along with wind shear, means storms rolling off Africa’s west coast are less likely to complete the journey across the Atlantic and to the United States.
  — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2021
• There’s also a chance that a weak La Nina could persist through the start of the season, which would cut down on wind shear across the Atlantic.
  — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• The extreme ocean heat and low wind shear are having some major effects on the season, Klotzbach said.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
• The storm will be moving over very warm water and there isn’t expected to be much wind shear to disrupt it.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 11 Sep. 2020
• But wind shear is at a minimum for stretches of that season.
  — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
• That creates a strong low-pressure system, which causes winds near the ground to blow from a different direction than winds higher up, contributing to wind shear.
  — William Gallus, The Conversation, 24 June 2024
• La Niña patterns can make conditions more favorable for Atlantic storms by decreasing wind shear over the region.
  — Dennis Mersereau, WIRED, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024