LONG TERM DROUGHT - EUROPE 2003
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- Long Term Drought - Europe - 2003
- causes
- high pressure anticyclonic blocking
- occurs when large and slow anticyclone disrupts the normal circulation
- blocked Atlantic air mass for 3 weeks. drew in hot air from africa
- high pressure anticyclonic blocking
- effects
- highest recorded UK temp recorded - 39 degrees.
- 46 degrees in some of spain
- 35,000 deaths attributed to heatwave. mostly the elderly
- crop yeilds dropped by 75% in Ukraine
- causes
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