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the air's tantrum, invisible and harmless, yet it ruins more pants than any villain
means Irregular, chaotic motion in air or fluid that causes bumpy, unpredictable movement — most familiar as the jolts that shake an airplane mid-flight.
from From Latin 'turbulentus,' meaning full of commotion or unruly, which grows from 'turba,' a crowd or disorderly throng — the same root that gives us 'disturb' and 'trouble.' So at heart, turbulence is simply a rowdy mob of air, jostling like a crowd that won't settle down.
- physics' nightmare
- unsolved math problem despite centuries of study
- clear-air kind
- strikes invisibly with zero warning
- plane-proof
- wings flex feet without breaking
- einstein's pick
- called it physics' last great mystery
- getting worse
- warming climate is intensifying it
denver international airport — experiences severe clear-air turbulence due to the rocky mountains, affecting flights daily
mount fuji lee waves — creates dangerous atmospheric turbulence on the lee side of mount fuji, japan, affecting aircraft
jet stream encounters — united airlines flight 232 in 1997 encountered extreme clear-air turbulence over the jet stream boundary near japan