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Shear luck hindering hurricanes _ so far.
Byline: Maya Bell
MIAMI _ They're just two little words, but they can be music to the ears: wind shear.
The weather phenomenon perhaps best known for knocking planes out of the sky decades ago also can rip apart hurricanes or even prevent the storms from forming. This year's shearing winds have been a tad stronger than prognosticators had expected, so they deserve partial credit for the relative quiet of the 2006 hurricane season so far.
They also can take a bow for keeping a persistent low-pressure system that was drifting off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., last week from sprouting into the season's fourth tropical storm.
By this time last year, the Atlantic basin had produced nine named storms, four of which became hurricanes.
Unfortunately, forecasters do not expect the calm to last. Wind shear is a big reason.
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- Warm water, less wind shear make for unexpectedly active season.
- Newspaper article from: Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) July 7, 2005 700+ words
...making history nonetheless. Four named storms have formed more quickly than in...more than normal in 2005. But wind shear has been lower than expected...of hurricane season. With four named storms so soon this season, does it mean...
- Study: Wind shear caused by global warming may help curb hurricanes.
- Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) April 18, 2007 700+ words
...warming is producing increasingly stronger wind shear over the Atlantic, and that might hinder...disputes that. Rather, it asserts that wind shear will compete against warmer ocean temperatures...going to be the dominant factor, the wind shear or the warm ocean, we still don't...
- Planners 'played down' wind-shear problem (276).
- Newspaper article from: South China Morning Post Chan, Quinton August 24, 1999 700+ words
...Authority had underestimated the effect of wind-shear problems on safety, a legislator said...years ago there would be turbulence and wind-shear risk at Chek Lap Kok. The fear was renewed...was selected indicated the levels of wind shear at Chek Lap Kok and Kai Tak were comparable...
- Wayfinder's Pilot Blames Wind Shear.(Metro & New Mexico)
- Newspaper article from: Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, NM) October 21, 1998 700+ words
...Balloon Accident Killed 1, Injured 12 Wind shear pushed the Wayfinder hot-air balloon...approaching a large field for landing, a 'wind shear' forced him down," said a preliminary...Transportation Board released Tuesday. Wind shear is a sudden, strong change of wind speed...
- Meteorological equipment 'provides one of most advanced detection systems in...
- Newspaper article from: South China Morning Post Lee, Stella August 25, 1999 700+ words
...susceptible to strong crosswinds and wind shear, where sudden gusts can unsettle a plane...included one of the world's most advanced wind-shear detection systems - the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar - which can detect wind shear associated with convective storms...
- Ozark Air Lines Hit with Fine for Alleged Faulty Wind-Shear Training.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News March 9, 2001 700+ words
...Lines for alleged failure to comply with wind-shear training requirements for pilots...regulation requiring pilots to receive wind-shear training was not being followed by Ozark...our federal aviation regulations." Wind-shear training is intended to prepare pilots...
- RAYTHEON EARNS FAA INCENTIVE AWARD FOR WIND SHEAR DETECTION SYSTEMS
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 27, 1993 700+ words
...to a congressional mandate to improve wind shear detection equipment at airports in the...catastrophic airline accidents attributed to wind shear. The TDWR program is designed to detect...weather conditions, including deadly wind shear, in and around airport terminal areas...
- Japan: Wind shear must have caused FedEx accident at Narita airport.
- News wire article from: Thai Press Reports March 25, 2009 700+ words
...airport near Tokyo must have lost its steering control due to wind shear that hit the plane the moment before landing, transport ministry...airport traffic controllers before landing that there was wind shear -- a sudden, drastic change in wind direction or speed over...
- Experts: Fewer storms will hit: Hurricane researchers say landfalls less likely...
- Newspaper article from: News Herald (Panama City, FL) April 5, 2006 700+ words
...skill." The report forecasts 17 named storms, nine of which would be hurricanes...said. A lack of an upper-level wind shear -- which normally tears hurricanes...for the formation of a record 26 named storms last year, he said. "It is...
- Making the skies safer: an intensive seven-year effort by NASA researchers led...
- Magazine article from: Electronic Design Allan, Roger May 24, 2004 700+ words
...accidents. One form of turbulence, wind shear, has been particularly catastrophic. Between 1964 and 1985, wind shear directly caused or contributed to...deaths and 200 injuries (see "The Wind-Shear Phenomenon," p. 50). Aircraft...
Source: HighBeam Research, Shear luck hindering hurricanes _ so far.
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