Unit 1A-Weather Hazards
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- Weather Hazards
- Effects of tropical storms
- Secondary effects
- People left homeless
- Lack of water and sanitation
- Roads blocked
- Buisinesses destroyed or damaged
- Shortages of food
- Primary effects
- Buildings destroyed
- Rivers and coasts flooded
- People killed and injured
- Roads, railways, ports and airports damaged
- Electric cables damaged
- Sewage overflows
- Secondary effects
- Responses to tropical storms
- Immediate responses
- Evacuate before the storm
- Rescue and treat people
- Set up temporary shelters
- Provide temporary food, water etc. supplies
- Recover any dead bodies
- Aid workers sent to the area
- Tech companies set up disaster response tools
- Long term responses
- Repair homes and rehouse people
- Repair damaged infastructure
- Repair and improve flood defences
- Improve forecasting techniques
- Promote economic recovery
- Immediate responses
- Weather hazards in the UK
- Rain
- Flooding
- Causes businesses to close
- Wind
- Damage properties
- Can cause deaths
- Forests damaged
- Hailstorms
- Driving can be dangerous
- Damage crops and property
- Snow and ice
- Cause injuries and deaths
- Economic closures
- Can damage crops
- Thunderstorms
- Heavy rain
- Lightning can cause deaths and fires
- Heatwaves
- Heat exhaustion and pollution
- Traffic disruption
- Drought
- Water supplies can run low
- Rain
- Reducing the effect
- Prediction
- Data from radars, satellites and aircrafts used to create computer models of the predicted path of the storm
- Gives people time to prepare and evacuate
- Planning
- Future developments planned to avoid areas at high risk
- Training for the emergency services
- Planned evacuation routes
- Prediction
- Features of a tropical storm
- Where?
- Most occur between 5-30 degrees North and South of the equator
- Water must be above 27 degrees celcius
- Move West due to Easterly winds near the equator
- Circular
- Last 7-14 days
- Eye
- Up to 50km across
- Centre of the storm
- Low pressure, no wind or rain
- Eye Wall
- Surrounds the eye
- Spiralling winds and rain
- Approx 160km winds
- Edge
- Less rain and clouds
- Spins anticlockwise
- Where?
- Effects of tropical storms
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