Climate change has made travelling by planes more turbulent today than it was four decades ago, according to a study.
The researchers from the University of Reading in the UK found that clear-air turbulence, which is invisible and hazardous to aircraft, has increased in various regions around the world.
The study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, found that at a typical point over the North Atlantic one of the world’s busiest flight routes the total annual duration of severe turbulence increased by 55 per cent from 17.7 hours in 1979 to 27.4 hours in 2020.
