CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - You may have heard this term before and if you’re wondering what it means, then this article is for you! In short, there’s both directional wind shear and speed wind shear.

Thunderstorms need certain ingredients in the atmosphere to form: moisture, instability and lift. However, for storms to tip the scale into severe status, additional ingredients are necessary, such as ...

Mesovortices are small, intense areas of rotation that can spin inside or around the eye of a powerful hurricane, creating extreme wind and tornadoes after landfall.

We often hear this term when weather is blamed for a plane crash. By definition, a wind shear is any change in wind direction and or speed either horizontally or upward. Typically some wind shear is ...

Weather is a fickle thing. When a storm system comes in, some places get creamed and others practically untouched. Such was the case for Lexington early Thursday morning. While the area around the ...

Researchers have discovered that Pseudomonas bacteria can detect the speed (shear rate) of flow regardless of the force. By linking the flow-detecting gene to one responsible for illumination, they ...