How to Use wind shear in a Sentence

wind shear

noun
  • La Niñas tend to reduce wind shear.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The upper-level winds sheared off part of the top of the storm.
    — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2017
  • In normal years, wind shear has a better chance of stunting storm growth.
    — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • This will increase the wind shear across our region throughout the rest of the day.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 12 May 2018
  • For one, the low wind shear that hurricanes require to form isn’t there yet.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Dry air and wind shear cripple storms, but calm moist air and hot water fuel it.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Warm waters feed a hurricane’s strength, while strong wind shear can pull it apart.
    — Jennifer Kay, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2018
  • Warm waters feed a hurricane's strength, while strong wind shear can pull it apart.
    — Travis Fedschun, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
  • That enhances wind shear — a change in wind speed and/or direction with height.
    — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2021
  • By then, dry air and strong wind shear prevailed over the oceanic regions where storms form.
    — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Right at the time of impact a wind shear again caught the plane, this time from directly above.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2024
  • And wind shear is expected to be low for the next several days.
    — Willie Drye, National Geographic, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The main one is that there has to be relatively little wind shear.
    — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The storm also had plenty of moisture and very little wind shear to stop it.
    — Stacy Morford, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2021
  • This creates a wind shear, which causes the air to rotate in a column.
    — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The storm is quickly losing steam as wind shear and dry air weaken its structure.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Vertical wind shear is the change of wind speed and direction with height.
    — Judson Jones, CNN, 25 June 2020
  • Forecasters said wind shear and dry air have helped to weaken the storm slightly.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Combine this with wind shear, and strong updrafts can start the rotations.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Combine this with wind shear, and strong updrafts can start the rotations.
    — Jenny Porter Tilley, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • But if the wind shear becomes strong, the destabilization force can win the tug-of-war.
    — Katherine Wright, Scientific American, 1 July 2023
  • Combine this with wind shear, and strong updrafts can start the rotations.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Those factors can include high wind shear, which can break up the storm or slow it down by blasting it with dry air.
    — National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2019
  • High levels of wind shear can tear apart an active storm or prevent one from forming in the first place.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 9 July 2024
  • If there’s much wind shear present, the low-pressure system dissipates, blown apart by the wind.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019
  • Higher wind shear can tear apart a storm’s structure or prevent it from getting as strong in the first place.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2025
  • At the same time, wind shear, or a change of wind speed and/or direction with height, will be increasing.
    — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Forecasters say the lull in storm activity was caused by wind shear as well as dry and dusty air.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The wind shear could also spin up tornadoes in some of the stronger thunderstorms.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • High amounts of wind shear can weaken storms by blowing apart their spin or prevent them from forming in the first place.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026

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