Saturday 5 April 2008

Climatic Hazards... Part One

Three main climatic hazards that you need to know, the first of which is...

Severe Gales
- associated with mid-latitude depressions where there is a steep pressure gradient
- tend to cause disruption to power supplies and transport

Great Storm of 1987...
Michael Fish's infamous "hurricane" weather report...



Shortly afterwards...



(Remember though, that, although there were hurricane force winds, this wasn't actually a hurricane!)

More on the storm from the Met Office.

More recently...
March this year saw severe storms across much of the UK.

Various news articles from the BBC:

If you follow the links on the right-hand side of the stories, there are several video clips and galleries of photos sent in to the BBC.

There is also an excellent sequence of satellite images which I blogged about at the time... Click on the picture below:


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