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Could possibly match that type of climb. the other probable hem is when you try to top a thunderstorm, the thunderstorm has the capability to suck you down and into it. >> what can happen to even a robust airliner when they get inside a thunderstorm cell? >> well, you're going to have vertical pointeds that can reach 90-miles-an-hour, horizontal winds at 50-miles-an-hour, hail, wind sheer, on an aircraft that would be of a stress to two and a half g positive and one g negative. so you can have very quickly that aircraft have -- lose a wing, could tear off an engine, destroy the fuselage. in ot...

On track. >> to an extreme weather ahurt. potential terne does may be will possib possible later today. >> i am in dee mo-- des moines, iowa. it was an active day yesterday. the storms started up early in the afternoon hours. omaha, nebraska and demoine, iowa. it happened at 3, 4:00 p.m. sen twral ti -- central time. there was a can of wind sheer.

Pattern. it increases the wind here across the atlantic basin. the wind sheer, the thing that breaks apart storms. so if we see that develop we would see a lower than active hurricane season, and that's what the official forecast calls from the hurricane center. the month of june, when we see storms forming, they generally form across the western caribbean or parts of the gulf of mexico, very close towards the u.s. the months of june we'll watch and monitor and see if we see el niño develop and will continue to keep everybody posted. right now, outside to gretchen. >> so, looks like folks -- ...

More on the details, this is such an season, there is one after the other after the other. >> and you know very well, john, too, tropical storms and typhoons, they halt the air travel. just about a year ago, superstorm sandy halted the flights just in the last 24 hours, across tokyo, 500 cancellations with the typhoon. thousands were taken out of the storm's path, as it moved near portions of danang in vietnam, and where the plane crash occurred, west, across southern laos, the area where the crash curbed. you see isolated thunderstorms indicated here in the reds and oranges, some popping up i...

Areas. >> shepard: i was looking at the big wall. this storm -- janice, we were watching it saturday, guess, and the thinking was it would keep churning, but always the wind was so strong you had the center of the storm in one place and no moisture to the left of it. >> right. dry air and you had a lot of wind sheer in the upper levels that tore karen apart, and that's been the story all hurricane season. we have had these storms crop up, and before they can even reach hurricane status, lot of dry air and upper level winds that kind of tear these storms apart. but a lot of the tropical moistur...