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 ...

We often hear this term when weather is blamed for a plane crash. By definition, a wind shear is any change in wind direction and or speed either horizontally or upward. Typically some wind shear is ...

Wind shear is defined as the change in wind speed, wind direction, or both, over some distance. You may have heard airplane pilots talk about turbulence and warn passengers that they’re in for a bumpy ...

Weather forecasters talk about wind shear a lot during hurricane season, but what exactly is it? I teach meteorology at Georgia Tech, in a part of the country that pays close attention to the Atlantic ...

We often hear this term when weather is blamed for a plane crash. By definition, a wind shear is any change in wind direction and/or speed either going horizontally or upward in the atmosphere.