[ATMO 201] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (16 pages long)
7 Feb 2017
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What"s going on in texas and the world: past flooding in houston and other parts of texas. Short lead time - storms hit before upgrade to slight risk (slgt). 35 tornadoes total: 5% chance of tornadoes is still significant, the (cid:449)eather ser(cid:448)ice did(cid:374)"t predict the da(cid:373)age i(cid:374) i(cid:374)dia(cid:374)apolis. Bryan, tx ef - 1 wedge tornado. Startrek planet - has absolutely no water. Number of weather and climate related disasters by state that caused at least i billion dollars of damage: graph of us, color coated by number of events. North carolina (wiped out all of the beach houses and tobacco crops) California (droughts and floods: pie chart of weather related deaths by type. Which ones effect individuals (floods) and which ones effect communities (heat: table from textbook. We care about drought because of crops. China - drought and rice don"t go together: graph of us, color coated by total fatalities per million people per year.
