How to Use wind shear in a Sentence

wind shear

noun

• The upper-level winds sheared off part of the top of the storm.
  — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2017
• 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
• This will increase the wind shear across our region throughout the rest of the day.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 12 May 2018
• 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
• This creates a wind shear, which causes the air to rotate in a column.
  — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2018
• 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
• And the hurricane center says the storm is likely to prowl an area where the wind shear, which could rip it apart, is low.
  — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• By then, dry air and strong wind shear prevailed over the oceanic regions where storms form.
  — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• And wind shear is expected to be low for the next several days.
  — Willie Drye, National Geographic, 5 Sep. 2017
• 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
• The belt of strong winds also enhances wind shear — the change of wind speed and direction with height — and adds to the rotation of the storm.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 15 June 2018
• The system's proximity to the Belize coast and wind shear have so far kept it in check.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 24 May 2018
• 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
• Disruptive breezes, called wind shear, also remain low in the region.
  — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 2 Nov. 2024
• During a La Niña, the area of low vertical wind shear in the Atlantic expands, increasing the number of hurricanes that develop while allowing stronger storms to form.
  — Ty Roush, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025