While Aer Lingus flights are cancelled left, right and centre, flights that do make it off the ground should be aware of global warming increasing ‘severe’ turbulence.“If you're up in the air and there's two streams of air running along, and they're different speeds, and they clash into each other, and you happen to be in the middle of that the plane will experience turbulence,” he said.
“There's a massive amount of air flowing at a high speed and little bubbles of air are coming off that,” he said. There are also subcategories of light, moderate and severe air currents – with concerns for severe turbulence rising.
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