QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION & HOMEWORK
Topic: Severe Winter Weather (heavy snow, ice storms, blizzards, extreme cold)
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? (You need to address two aspects: 1) How we know what to expect most years? and 2) How is the near-term weather forecast developed?)
- 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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