How to Use wind shear in a Sentence

wind shear

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• There is also very low wind shear right now in the Gulf.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
• This is due to warmer ocean waters and less wind shear.
  — Max Claypool, Brandon Miller and Monica Garrett, CNN, 18 Aug. 2020
• The dry air has shrunk and the wind shear in the upper atmosphere has eased up. ...
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 30 July 2019
• One factor that can lead to high wind shear in the Atlantic basin is El Niño.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2020
• Right at the time of impact a wind shear again caught the plane, this time from directly above.
  — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Vertical wind shear is the change of wind speed and direction with height.
  — Judson Jones, CNN, 25 June 2020
• Those that form off the coast of Africa must survive wind shear (horizontal winds) to hit the East Coast with full force.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2019
• By the end of August, waters in the tropics have warmed and wind shear across the Atlantic begins to weaken.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 27 Aug. 2019
• 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
• If there’s much wind shear present, the low-pressure system dissipates, blown apart by the wind.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019
• 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
• Those factors can include high wind shear, which can break up the storm or slow it down by blasting it with dry air.
  — National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2019
• According to Klotzbach, June had the lowest wind shear in the southern Atlantic Basin since 1988.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 17 July 2023
• Think of vertical wind shear as the difference in wind between the surface and higher altitudes.
  — Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
• With very low vertical wind shear and incredibly warm sea-surface temperatures, Milton will be able to gain steady to rapid strength over the next few days.
  — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 6 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024