Page 3 - Wind Sheer News Today

Gamerant.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gamerant.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.

Complete lost of control. >> reporter: so-called clear air turbulence has only gotten more severe over the decades. >> it is increasing, and it is because of climate change. so we know that the wind sheer in the jet stream is now 15% stronger than it was when satellites first began observing it in the 1970s. >> reporter: researcher paul williams predicts turbulence will get two to three times worse in the years to come affecting flights at hig altitudes in the northern hemisphere >> there has be...

Top 10 Best Transformers Mini-Con Molds + Ranking for all 100 Mini-Con Molds

Top 5 Best Transformers Minicon Partners

Flight as we were flying through, it was intensifying up to that strong high-end category 4, and really just had all the right conditions in place. not a ton of wind sheer, and thats what allows these storms to really grow in size and intensity. >> so when you talk about going through 76 storms and youre talking about how disturbing it was today, not just the up and down turbulence but the lateral turbulence. and you say thats much more disturbing, i think everyone can instinctually understand w...

Which normally is not the strongest part of the storm. another thing that stood out was the amount of lightning. we were flying through at night, but once we got into the eye, i was taking photos like it was daytime because there was just so much lightning outside. its really just those simple factors that really contribute to these storms growing in size. that ocean temperature, the low wind sheer, those kinds of things. >> your tolerance for these things is high. this is what you do for a livi...

>> theyve made a steady march across the central atlantic. its in a volatile environment. you see all of the brown located around the storm. thats fiona. thats dry air and wind sheer. thats eroded the storm in the past six hours. we do not want to write the storm off just yet because some of the computer models hint at the strengthening and the potential for some impacts along the u.s. coast potentially. were monitoring that. heres a look at the watches and warnings. puerto rico, the british and...

In front of them are gone, so you can directly see the path moving right straight through there. >> reporter: as the community grieves, many are asking why. >> this is the largest event ever in december in terms of severe weather and tornadoes. >> reporter: experts are working to understand what fueled these monster storms. >> this is very unusual. >> josh durkey is a meteorology professor at the university of kentucky. >> there is warm air ushering in a lot of moisture in the lower levels of th...

As well. lets talk about the warnings in place right now where you see these colors, it corresponds to a warning. where you see that red, thats a hurricane warning. now, one of our biggest concerns, immediate concerns right now that severe weather. we have had many, many tornado warnings. hurricane kind of has all the ingredients it needs to spawn these tornadoes. right? it has the warm, humid air, the super cells, the wind sheer. then it has that friction with land. so we are looking at the pot...

Storm there. that is rotating. that has a rotating updraft. you can see the dense rain shaft. that was only minutes away from approaching the shore. after that came through we were blasted by 50 to 60 miles per hour winds. you saw beach goers running when they saw that storm approaching. it looked very ominous. they were running to get out of the rain. a storm like that is certainly capable of producing a very damaging waterspout that can come ashore via tornado. i have chased well over 35 of th...