Wind shear
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Oct 9, 2026
Bryan RoseveareHOST
There are more kinds than these.
Bryan RoseveareHOST
The Southeaster pouring over Table Mountain that makes the last five minutes into Cape Town a rough ride, mountain waves over the Otunikwa Mountains in George, and Windshear close to the ground, which is the one we train every single year in the simulator, because the answer to it is a go-around and every ounce of energy.
Bryan RoseveareHOST
your aircraft can produce.
Bryan RoseveareHOST
And then there's the one that got me on that approach into OR Tambo, wake turbulence.
Kerry DunstHOST
So the water in the Gulf is very warm, but there is a lot of upper level wind shear, so that's going to help prevent this storm from getting too strong, hopefully.
speaker_14CORRESPONDENT
Isaias could near Category 3 strength before weakening ahead of a possible northern Gulf Coast landfall.
speaker_14CORRESPONDENT
As it battles Windshear, the storm is expected to become lopsided, bringing life-threatening storm surge, heavy rain, tornadoes, and destructive winds to parts of the south.
speaker_15SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're going to be able to handle it, but it is something that we're full throttle on.
speaker_15SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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speaker_15SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So the water in the Gulf is very warm, but there is a lot of upper level wind shear, so that's going to help prevent this storm from getting too strong, hopefully.
Maribel GonzalezCORRESPONDENT
Isaias could near Category 3 strength before weakening ahead of a possible northern Gulf Coast landfall.
Maribel GonzalezCORRESPONDENT
As it battles Windshear, the storm is expected to become lopsided, bringing life-threatening storm surge, heavy rain, tornadoes, and destructive winds to parts of the south.
speaker_16SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're going to be able to handle it, but it is something that we're full throttle on.
speaker_16SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Take your large duffel bags,
Trey GreenwoodGUEST
We'll get into more detail on this in just a second, but often isolated updrafts, just a lone updraft that goes up, usually can't survive on its own.
Trey GreenwoodGUEST
There's some factor in the environment, whether that's wind shear, whether that's dry air, and again, we'll get to this in just a second, that can actually cause those lone updrafts to just die off.
Trey GreenwoodGUEST
And of course, that's not what we want.
Trey GreenwoodGUEST
If we're storm chasing, we want to see those storms mature and become robust supercells.
Trey GreenwoodGUEST
A lot of times you actually need multiple updrafts to cluster together, and oftentimes that looks a little bit messy and may throw you off course initially.
Trey GreenwoodGUEST
We need that to get the storms to survive in the face of those environmental factors to become robust supercells down the road.
Gabriel HarberHOST
How can strong wind shear and dry air actually hurt isolated storms?
Trey GreenwoodGUEST
Yeah, so those are your main factors that are going to be a detriment to the growth of isolated updrafts.
Leigh MorganGUEST
So it won't take much drier than normal conditions to vault us right back there.
Ike MorganHOST
Yeah, the tampon down of the hurricanes, that's Windshear, right?
Leigh MorganGUEST
Yeah, El Nino typically, you know, they're all different.
Leigh MorganGUEST
There's my asterisk.