Sentences with phrase «little wind shear»

I understand the Atlantic hurricanes are born if a) sea surface temp exceeds 27 deg in a rather thick layer; b) there is little wind shear and c) there is a suitable seminal thunderstorm cluster moving westward in the Intertropical Convection Zone (ITCZ) over the equatorial Atlantic.

McNoldy said the conditions are ripe because we're precisely in the middle of hurricane season and there's little wind shear, a condition in which layers of air at different altitudes move at different speeds and which tends to break up hurricanes.

Warm ocean waters, combined with little wind shear that could have torn the embryonic storm apart, allowed...

The perfect recipe for a strong hurricane includes warm ocean water and little wind shear.

And there's very little wind shear (upper - level winds that can blow the tops off storms.)

Not exact matches

I've scanned the many thoughtful comments by learned readers, but apparently none noticed or wanted to point out the minor little typo in the first paragraph of Gavin's notes: it's wind shear, not wind sheer.

It is a little surprising is that a paper that addresses the Walker circulation and wind shear doesn't specifically make any predictions about the future of El Ninos in a warming world (more frequent?

The high - altitude wind shear may help knock the storm down a little this year, but the ocean temperatures won't.