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It’s not just you—in-flight turbulence really is getting worse. WIRED spoke with pilot Andrea Themely and atmospheric scientist Dr. Paul Williams about why conditions are becoming more severe and how the scientific and commercial aviation communities are approaching the future of air travel. If you want to check out Dr. Williams’ work, click here: ~williams…

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It’s not just you—in-flight turbulence really is getting worse. WIRED spoke with pilot Andrea Themely and atmospheric scientist Dr. Paul Williams about why conditions are becoming more severe and how the scientific and commercial aviation communities are approaching the future of air travel.

If you want to check out Dr. Williams’ work, click here: ~williams

Pilotbrief byThe Weather Company helps pilots and crew visualize weather and possible turbulence along flight plans in one interactive dashboard to help make more informed flight decisions:

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Director: Katherine Wzorek
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Expert: Andrea Themely; Dr. Paul Williams
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33 Comments

  1. Haabiuallh Khan

    August 24, 2023 at 10:56 pm

    Keep your seatbelt ON…. ALWAYS….. there’s a reason ! You do not want a head and neck injury.

  2. Olivia recently separated

    August 24, 2023 at 11:07 pm

    I started getting more wary once they started mentioning global warming.
    How much of this politically motivated and how much of this is truth?

  3. ????TАP T0 НAVE S*Х WIТ' МE

    August 24, 2023 at 11:13 pm

    Captioner is not a fan of the word “trebling”.

  4. Tanvir Tarwani

    August 24, 2023 at 11:26 pm

    I started getting more wary once they started mentioning global warming.

    How much of this politically motivated and how much of this is truth?

  5. ????TАP T0 НAVE S*Х WIТ' МE

    August 24, 2023 at 11:31 pm

    Hopefully this drives innovation to avoid clear air turbulence

  6. ????TАP T0 НAVE S*Х WIТ' МE

    August 24, 2023 at 11:44 pm

    New turbulence update just dropped ????️????

  7. Mia Malkovas

    August 24, 2023 at 11:50 pm

    If Prigozhin’s flight had been a day later he might’ve known about the risks of turbulence.

  8. Andy Tranter

    August 25, 2023 at 12:03 am

    I love when they forget and leave the seatbelt light on for 6 hours

    • Osita Anisiobi

      August 25, 2023 at 3:51 am

      ????????????????????????????

  9. Erika V!rG!N- S3X : TAP H3R3

    August 25, 2023 at 12:14 am

    You’re someone’s reason to smile.

  10. ????TАP T0 НAVE S*Х WIТ' МE

    August 25, 2023 at 12:21 am

    7:51 – bad advise… unless you’re suggesting everyone to order a drink, put them on the tray and hope for a turbulence?

    because when a turbulence hit, there is NO WAY you can order anything.. the pilot would ask everyone including the air stewards to sit..

  11. magsearwig

    August 25, 2023 at 12:21 am

    lol what’s up with hands grabbing model airplanes for the visuals? that retro-analog take was fun and interesting 10 years ago…

  12. Benjamín Kohn

    August 25, 2023 at 1:43 am

    7:17 basically the only info youll remember

  13. Sofía González

    August 25, 2023 at 2:18 am

    At the end is he implying that we should get wine, rum, whiskey ??? I need clarification on which one can help me see the turbulence more still. ????????????????

  14. sweiland75

    August 25, 2023 at 3:29 am

    Why does most of the clear air turbulence happen over the US?

    • Akuma

      August 25, 2023 at 9:11 pm

      It doesnt. US is one of the many hotspots. but based on the video’s information, one can conclude the driving factors of the increase is 1 – climate change, 2 – CO2 emissions. When you look at industrial, agricultural and population… the US is one of your bigger contributors to both those factors. I mentioned agriculture because of all the methane gas it produces when it comes to live stock, mainly cows.

  15. Dedu Tedy

    August 25, 2023 at 4:17 am

    Then stop flying all the useless flights you idiots…why so many travels for what ????‍♂️????
    Climate change is also affected by those ????

  16. N

    August 25, 2023 at 4:55 am

    Apparently everything is because of, either climate change or systemic racism ????

  17. Duke Burgundy

    August 25, 2023 at 7:10 am

    A what “eyes” view?.. that was off putting af and completely unnecessary. Keep yah dumbass religion out of science class, thank you. Bye!

    • ᴛᴇxᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ ????ᴡɪʀᴇᴅ_ʏᴛ

      August 27, 2023 at 4:38 am

      Hay
      You won.

  18. ÆRITH LoveYou

    August 25, 2023 at 9:00 am

    Did you pray today?

  19. Super Jesus

    August 25, 2023 at 10:56 am

    Its not though. Climate alarmist propaganda.

  20. ٰ

    August 25, 2023 at 11:48 am

    did you pray today

  21. Elequist

    August 25, 2023 at 1:16 pm

    Now that I watched this, i’m ready to get on my flight next week yay…

  22. Runoratsu

    August 25, 2023 at 6:29 pm

    I love turbulence. It’s like a free rollercoaster ride. I’m all for more of it!

  23. Mandroid

    August 25, 2023 at 9:26 pm

    Is this the right use of “circumnavigate”?

  24. john james

    August 26, 2023 at 12:48 am

    turbulence is reason i hate flying

    • forever anon

      August 26, 2023 at 8:31 am

      Same i get panic attacks but it’s weird as a kid i liked it and as i aged i developed a physical anxiety response to it

  25. Debra Scott

    August 26, 2023 at 1:59 pm

    This would be more convincing with data on actual incidences of turbulance ie how many minutes of turbulence year on year not just anecdotal incidents and projections.

    • ᴛᴇxᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ???? NerdImmersion

      August 27, 2023 at 4:26 am

      You won ????

  26. Sue

    August 27, 2023 at 4:06 pm

    We should have less flights as they are adding to climate change along with other activities we do

  27. missjaygh

    August 28, 2023 at 4:17 pm

    Ffs ????

  28. Joshua Gold

    August 30, 2023 at 12:41 pm

    That trick with a drink only works sometimes. Other times, the turbulence causes the drink to spill on you.

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