Wind Shear Quotes

As Earth's climate changes, we can expect more destructive hurricanes. As sea level and surface temperatures rise, more solar energy is trapped in the atmosphere, revving up the hydrological cycle of evaporation and precipitation and sometimes manifesting in terrifying storms.

We know the cyclones will come because we are in the wind sector. It cannot be consistent high wind; sometimes, it can be low wind. We are designing our turbines assuming that one day even a cyclone will come.

Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.

I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.

I've seen several funnel clouds as a kid, too. They're cool if, you know, they're, like, two towns over, but they're scary as hell if you know they're coming your way.

Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all."

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

At first, the tornado is nearly invisible. Against the sky, it's white on white.

I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.

The eye of the hurricane forms as air rotates up and out of the hurricane and some of the air that's being spun out of the top of the storm sinks back into the center. This keeps the eye of the storm relatively calm and clear.

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

Immediately surrounding the tranquil eye is the most violent part of the hurricane: the eye wall. The most intense wind speeds at the surface are found there.