Horizontal wind shear
An example of horizontal wind shear affecting a storm cell from building, this is what has an adverse effect on hurricanes in our region this time of year and helps to tame them before they get intense. The updraft of a thunderstorm gets torn apart and is prevented from strengthening and weakens the system, obviously hurricanes are larger than this cell but the same effect tames them, living in the Caribbean everyone is weather aware!! The wind shear is coming from the west whereas our normal trade winds are from the east, the cloud shear is pointing east.
Horizontal wind shear
An example of horizontal wind shear affecting a storm cell from building, this is what has an adverse effect on hurricanes in our region this time of year and helps to tame them before they get intense. The updraft of a thunderstorm gets torn apart and is prevented from strengthening and weakens the system, obviously hurricanes are larger than this cell but the same effect tames them, living in the Caribbean everyone is weather aware!! The wind shear is coming from the west whereas our normal trade winds are from the east, the cloud shear is pointing east.