Turbulence on Flights: Increasing Concerns and Expected Worsening.

Social media has made turbulence more apparent, with videos of flights rocked by turbulence regularly accruing thousands and sometimes millions of views. Climate change is making turbulence worse, with clear-air turbulence increasing due to global warming. The aviation industry has several technologies at its disposal to detect clear-air turbulence and research that helps to forecast areas of turbulence. Flight attendants make up 79% of those seriously injured from air turbulence, and there has been an uptick in turbulence, according to the president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA.