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DATES
Start: 11/4
On-line discussion: 11/4-11/9
Work due: 11:59 pm, 11/10 |
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION & HOMEWORK
Topic: Severe Winter Weather
Homework/discussion questions: Explain!
- Which types of severe winter weather risk are you willing to live with? What level of risk from severe winter weather is acceptable to you? Why?
- How would you know if the severe weather risk was assessed accurately? What are the characteristics of a good severe winter weather risk assessment?
- What should be done by people and communities to prepare for severe winter weather hazards and prevent catastrophe?
To get to those answers, your group should discuss the following questions as well as the homework question. (Note: These are NOT due as part of you homework, but you can and should use answers to these questions as part of your explanation.)
- What factors influence the impact of severe winter weather?
- How do severe winter weather hazards vary from place to place? Why?
- In what ways is severe winter weather predictable?
- To what other hazards is severe winter weather linked?
- What are the potentially disastrous consequences of severe winter weather?
- In what ways has human activity made severe winter weather hazards catastrophic?
- How can the hazardous consequences of severe winter weather be minimized?
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RESOURCES
Notes: View slides | download PowerPoint
Text:
- Chapter 9 (focus on WINTER weather)
- Chapter 12 (how is climate change likely to impact severe winter weather)
Recommended Activities
- Search Google of Yahoo News for "severe winter weather" or "blizzards"
On-line resources:
- National Weather Service: https://www.weather.gov/
- Enter your city, state or zipcode in the box on the top left. Explore the forecast page and click links to see what kind of information they provide. It is especially useful to follow the "forecast discussion" link to see what the NWS meteorologists think about the forecast they have posted.
- Click on the local forecast office name (Chicago, Lincoln, Quad Cities) near the top. For past events, hover your cursor over "Climate and Past Weather" and click on the link to "Event Summaries"
- more National Weather Service stuff
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Centers for Disease Control
- NOAA
- American Red Cross
- U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
- Illinois State Water Survey, Center for Atmospheric Science
- State Climatologist
- The above website has a lot of information about various severe weather phenomena in Illinois include risk assessments, maps, and lists of historical events.
- Illinois Emergency Management Agency
- Why the weather forecast will always be a bit wrong
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