As the peak months of the Atlantic hurricane season quickly approach, conditions for tropical development become more likely.

Recent hurricane seasons have been defined by storms supercharging over the Gulf of Mexico’s warmer-than-normal waters as they barrel toward Florida’s west coast. Experts are hopeful that trend could ...

Vertical wind shear is present nearly everywhere on Earth, since winds typically move faster at higher altitudes than at the surface. It can be stronger or weaker than normal, and that’s ...

Vertical wind shear can keep tropical storms in check, particularly during El Niño years. When El Niño is gone, it’s a different story.

Wind shear in the vertical is what we watch very closely for, as it indicates the winds turning, or changing direction, as you climb higher in the sky. Wind shear is what separates severe ...

"The weak vertical wind shear environment would help hurricanes reach their potential intensity, the maximum possible intensity given the environmental conditions, which has already increased in ...

Several factors may play a role in making this hurricane season more active than usual: warmer-than-average ocean temperatures, weak wind shear, high West African Monsoon activity, and a neutral ...

Too much vertical wind shear, however, can offset the top of the storm. This weakens the wind circulation, as well as the transport of heat and moisture needed to fuel the storm.

Keep in mind that this is not the same horizontal and vertical wind shear that may be experienced in the vicinity of deep, moist convection or thunderstorms, hence the name nonconvective LLWS.

Tropical Cyclone 09S formed on Jan. 22, 2020 in the Southern Indian Ocean despite being affected by vertical wind shear, and one day later wind shear caused its demise. The end of 09S was caught ...

Wind shear simply put is this - a change in wind speed or direction, typically as you go up into the atmosphere. This is known as vertical wind shear.