To use a fairy tale comparison, the potentially catastrophic Hurricane Milton could face the weather equivalent of the big, bad wolf as it approaches Florida — wind shear. That interaction could bring ...

Weather forecasters talk about wind shear a lot during hurricane season, but what exactly is it? I teach meteorology at Georgia Tech, in a part of the country that pays close attention to the Atlantic ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Pinpoint Weather 12 Meteorologists Tony Petrarca and T.J. Del Santo discussed the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season on Beyond the Forecast. In the video above, Tony and T.J ...

Whenever thunderstorms are in the forecast, meteorologists are always looking to see if there will be any wind shear present, and if so, just how much. Wind shear is the measurement of the difference ...

Nonconvective low-level wind shear (LLWS) in TAFs is often misunderstood; it primarily forecasts a rapid increase in wind speed with height within 2,000 feet of the surface, typically occurring in ...

Imagine trying to build a tower of cards in a wind tunnel. No matter how strong the foundation, the upper layers won’t stand a chance. That’s what wind shear does to a developing storm. Wind shear ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — With tropical systems we often talk about the impacts of wind shear. Enough of it and a storm can be ripped apart and weaken blowing the top away from the low portion of a storm.

Good for us, bad for tropical systems (Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.) We’ve gotten so used to seeing storms quickly spin up in the ...

Wind shear is defined as the change in wind speed, wind direction, or both, over some distance. You may have heard airplane pilots talk about turbulence and warn passengers that they’re in for a bumpy ...

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