Geography Tropical Storms Monitoring, Planning, Prediction and Protecting.

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  • MPPP for Tropical storms
    • Monitoring
      • Specially equipped aircraft can fly into the storm to collect data like windspeed.
      • Satellites can look for a classic cloud pattern which is associated with tropical storms.
    • Planning
      • 'National hurricane preparedness week'
        • Encourages people to:
          • Have fuel in their tanks
          • Prepare disaster supply kits
      • Future developments can avoid high risk areas.
    • Predicting
      • Supercomputers can be fed data and then predict the path and intensity of tropical storms.
        • National hurricane centres issue early warnings so people can evacuate.
          • Track cones... around 70 percent of hurricanes occur within the predicted cone.
      • Track cones... around 70 percent of hurricanes occur within the predicted cone.
    • Protection
      • Coastal flood defences can be built
        • Such as levées
      • People are advised to install storm shutters, remove trees close to buildings, tie down objects and install hurricane straps.
      • Buildings can be built to withstand winds

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