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Mind Map by Jodie Goodacre, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jodie Goodacre
almost 11 years ago
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London - Local Area Hazard Risks
- Kensal Rise Tornado
- 7th December 2006
- 11:02am
- T4 on the TORRO scale
- Strong Atlantic low pressure system
- Ulrike
- Caused very unstable weather conditions to the UK but mainly in the South
- A drop in humidity was recorded, this is likely to have caused an increase in atmospheric pressure
- Causing the squall line to move forward at an accelerated pace
- Causing the squall line to move forward at an accelerated pace
- Damages were estimated at £10 million
- 6 people were injured
- 100 properties damaged
- Caused a school to close for a week due to a collapsed roof
- Cars damaged
- Potential to cause water contamination
- 7th December 2006
- Summer Heat wave
- 2003
- Researchers say that
this heat wave was the
hottest on the continent
for at least 5 centuries
- Atlantic cyclones brought
cool and wet weather for a
short period at the end of
July
- Temperatures
started to increase
substantially from
the 3rd of August
- Temperatures
started to increase
substantially from
the 3rd of August
- Temperatures reached 38.5 degrees
- According to the BBC more than 2,000 people than usual died in the UK
- Many suffered heat stroke, dehydration, sun burns and deaths from air pollution
- People drowned from trying to cool off in rivers
- There was an increase in skin cancer
- Drinking water supplies were effected
- Hose pipe bans
- Agriculture was effected
- Animals died
- Tourism increased
- Railways buckled
- Undergrounds became unbearable
- Some road surfaces had melted
- Cost European farmers 13.1 billion euros
- 2003
- Drought
- Summer 2006
- Worst drought since 1976
- This came about as a result of two successive winters of below average rainfall
- Agriculture suffered
- Hose pine bans
- Cracks appeared in the soil which was leading to unstable foundations
- Low low in rivers meant that pollution had a greater impact on the environment
- Fish were more likely to die because of low flow, low oxygen levels and higher water temperatures.
- Summer 2006
- Severe fog
- December 2006
- High pressure became slow moving for several days
- Locally freezing fog which in some locations lasted 3 to 5 days
- In many places visibility was
reduced to below 100m and
below 30m in some cases
- Transport was effected
- Fog caused problems on the roads with one man killed in a crash
- Police appealed to motorist to slow down and keep their distance
- Up to 70,000 people suffered delays or cancellations at airports
- December 2006
- Floods
- Thames Flood plain
- Thames flood barrier was opened in 1984 - cost around £534 million to build
- Water contamination
- Death
- Injury
- Damage to infrastructure
- Disease
- Damage to crops
- Insurance will increase
- Emotional damage
- Sendimental loss
- 1982 flood killed 302 people
- Thames Flood plain
- Air pollution
- Kills more people than obesity in the UK
- Causes respiratory diseases
- Kills more people than obesity in the UK
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