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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Forecasters said wind shear and dry air have helped to weaken the storm slightly.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 8 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • But wind shear is at a minimum for stretches of that season.
    — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The hurricane center is betting on wind shear to increase by that point and help to tear the storm apart in the Caribbean.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 20 June 2023
  • As the storm pushes northeast toward the end of the week it is expected to encounter cold water and wind shear.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2022
  • All that rain came from two large storm complexes combined with northwest winds with a fair amount of wind shear, Koch said.
    — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 19 June 2021
  • Forecasters say dry air, Saharan dust and wind shear have been among the reasons there haven’t been more storms this year.
    — David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The culprit is wind shear, which is when two huge air masses close to each other move at different speeds.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Strong wind shear, which happens when the wind conditions change rapidly, breaks apart developing storms.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 14 June 2024
  • While most fire whirls form in a similar ground-up fashion as dust devils, strong wind shear created by the fire itself can force those pyrocumulonimbus clouds to acquire the rotation needed to generate a tornado.
    — Dennis Mersereau, WIRED, 22 July 2024

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