A technology has been developed to detect the most dangerous turbulence encountered during aircraft flights in advance using ...

Wind shear can make or break a single tropical storm and can have long-term impacts on a tropical season. But, what exactly is wind shear and why is it so important in forecasting hurricanes and other ...

Wind shear, a sudden change in wind speed or direction, is a major cause of aviation incidents; it was responsible for 18% of ...

An accident involving an experienced IFR pilot under seemingly benign weather conditions highlights the dangers of underestimating low-level wind shear and turbulence, which led to spatial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weather forecasters talk about wind shear a lot during hurricane season, but what exactly is it? I teach meteorology at Georgia ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - With Hurricane Lane breathing down Hawaii's neck, it's important to know how strong the storm is and the factors surrounding the system. The first thing to note is the ...

Above: MODIS image of Hurricane Matthew near landfall on October 8, 2016. High wind shear of 30 knots due to strong upper-level winds from the mid-latitude jet stream was distorting the cloud pattern ...

One of the staple terms meteorologists mention frequently when discussing the possibility for tropical development is wind shear. But what is wind shear? And what does it have to do with tropical ...

Q: How dangerous is wind shear when landing? — Submitted by reader John Fleming, Berlin, Md. A:Wind shear can be very dangerous to a landing airplane. Until the 1990s, it caused several accidents.

Aviation's understanding of dangerous wind shear evolved from initial ignorance to recognizing its role in crashes, particularly after the 1975 Eastern Flight 66 accident. Dr. Ted Fujita's research ...