Weather and Climate

What factors affect the world's climate

Extreme weather

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How is climate changing

Examples of Extreme Weather

Tropical Storms (74mph+)

How does it rain

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Relief Rainfall

Frontal Rainfall

Convectional Rainfall

How can humans make it rain

This type of rainfall is caused when the heat from the sun causes moisture on the ground to evaporate into the form of water vapor. This water vapor forms clouds high in the sky. Eventually, large water droplets fall down from the clouds as Precipitation. Besides the form of liquid water rain, precipitation can also fall in the form of snow, hail, sleet and more.

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Hurricanes

Typhoons

Hurricane Katrina

Cyclones

Where did it occur?

New Orleans

When did it happen?

Started- August 23 2005

Ended- August 31 2005

What were the impacts of Hurricane Katrina?

Social

Environmental

Economical

Tropical Storms of with winds of 74 mph or more are called Cyclones, Typhoons, or Hurricanes (Depending on where they occur)

These tropical storms' routes usually take them away from the equator

Where do they occur?

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Typhoons appear on right on top of the equator, east side. From below the middle east, all the way across through the Indian ocean, and onward. The typhoon zones are almost like a mirror reflection of the cyclone line (the equator is the mirror line)

Cyclones occur right below the equator, east side. From near Madagascar, all the way to near Australia and New Guinea

Hurricanes appear right above equator, west side. Stretching along far west from Africa, all the way to the very end of a flat map, quite below Hawaii. Nearing the Typhoon Zones