Weather hazards in the UK
- Created by: EXTERMINATE2002
- Created on: 17-03-18 18:42
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- The Uk's weather hazards
- Extreme winds
- Sometimes remnants of hurricanes travelling over the Atlantic from the US
- Can cause destruction to power supplies and cause trees to fall
- Strongly affected Whales and West-Midlands
- Prolonged rainfall
- During 2014, wet winter flooding was widespread across Southern Britain
- Common in late winter and early spring.
- Heavy snow and extreme cold
- Particularly effects the North
- Has become less common in recent years
- Drought and extreme heat
- Long dry spells of hot weather
- In 2003, Europe had their most extreme heat wave for 50 years
- Thunder-storms
- July 2014- 3000 lightening strikes across Southern Britain, followed by hot weather and torrential rain
- Extreme winds
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