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EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS - Coggle Diagram
EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS
HEAT WAVES
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The number of heatwaves have been increasing in the recent years. In 2011-12 the number of intense heat waves tripled in a long-term average
Analyses show that human induced climate change has generally increased the probability of a heatwave
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DROUGHTS
Higher temperatures lead to increased rates of evaporation, including more loss of moisture through plant leaves.
An example of recent drought occurred in 2011, when many locations in Texas and Oklahoma experienced more than 100 days over 100°F.
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Effects
water shortages, crop damage, streamflow reduction, and depletion of groundwater and soil moisture.
HEAVY DOWNPOURS
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In the U.S., from the 1910s to the 1980s, extreme single-day precipitation events remained fairly stable. From the 1980s until today, this has risen substantially.
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FLOODS
A flood is defined as any high flow, overflow, or inundation by water that causes or threatens damage
Major flood types: Flash flood, Urban flooding, river flooding and coastal flooding
Worldwide from 1980 to 2009, floods caused more than 50,000 deaths has affected more than 2.8 billion people
HURRICANES
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Intense, frequent and durable storms
CHANGE IN OTHER STORMS
Wind Storms
A winter storm is an event in which wind coincides with varieties of precipitation that only occur at freezing temperatures, such as snow, mixed snow and rain, or freezing rain.
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