TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Wind shear is a term that comes up often when tracking tropical storms and hurricanes but it’s not a readily-understood term. Wind shear refers to varying wind directions with ...

Zachary Handlos receives funding from the National Science Foundation. He is affiliated with the American Meteorological Society. I teach meteorology at Georgia Tech, in a part of the country that ...

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 ...

Tropical Storm Chantal is now nothing more than a wet memory, after impacting portions of the east coast over the Fourth of July weekend. Tropical conditions are expected to be quiet as Saharan dust ...

Whenever thunderstorms are in the forecast, meteorologists are always looking to see if there will be any wind shear present, and if so, just how much. Wind shear is the measurement of the difference ...

The tropics are quiet right now, with no activity expected over the next seven days. Saharan dust and wind shear are helping prevent tropical systems from developing. AccuWeather forecasters are ...