How to Use wind shear in a Sentence

wind shear

noun
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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
  • 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
  • Combine this with wind shear, and strong updrafts can start the rotations.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Think of vertical wind shear as the difference in wind between the surface and higher altitudes.
    — Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Hurricanes can take advantage of conditions such as warm ocean water and low wind shear to quickly gain strength, and waters in the Caribbean and this area of the Atlantic are warmer than normal.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024

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