Weather Hazards
- Created by: jackmq
- Created on: 25-11-19 13:42
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- Weather Hazards
- Global Atmospheric Circulation
- Causes
- High pressure air that is sinking
- Low pressure air that is rising
- Earths rotation
- Surface winds
- Seasonal change
- Atmosphere
- Layer of gas that surrounds the Earth
- It is constanly moving
- This is GAC
- It is constanly moving
- Layer of gas that surrounds the Earth
- Causes
- Tropical storm
- Form over large oceans between tropic of Cancer + Capricorn
- They do not form at the equator because not enough "spin"
- Key features
- Wind
- Buildings collapse
- Flying debris
- Has to be 75mph+
- Flattens ecosystems
- Torrential rain
- People and cars swept away
- People trapped by rising water
- Drainage levels can't cope
- Rivers burst their banks
- Storm surge
- Destroys coastline
- Flooding
- People are swept and drowned
- Wind
- Reducing Impacts
- Monitoring/ prediction
- Formation of a hurricane watch
- Pre-evacuation alerts
- Protection
- Reinforcing windows, doors and roofs
- Storm drains
- Tropical storm shelters
- Planning
- Raising awareness local level
- Indiviual plans
- Purchase of hurrcaine survival packs
- Educating
- Monitoring/ prediction
- Somerset Floods 2014
- Location
- South-west coast of England
- Plains surronded by two mountains
- Streaked by rivers
- Impacts
- Jobs and social lives
- Damages ecosystems
- Expensive to repair
- Death of livestock
- Transport + comunication issues
- Location
- Global Atmospheric Circulation
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