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Severe weather warnings
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Some definitions
Natural Hazard: Weather or flood-related situation withpotential to inflict loss or damage to the community or environment. While hazard may induce a crisis, they do not necessarilylead to disasters.
Natural Disaster: A catastrophic event caused by a natural hazard that severely disrupts the fabric of a community and usually requires intervention of government to return the community to “normality”.
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Some definitions
In some instances, natural disasters can not be prevented from occurring, however their overall impact can be significantly reduced through Disaster Mitigation.
Disaster mitigation: Process of managing the “risks” associated with potential natural disasters so that loss may be minimized and even eliminated.- Appropriate Response actions
Disaster risk: The likelihood of harmful consequences arising from the interaction of natural hazards and the community.
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Some definitions
Risk = Hazard Probability x Vulnerability
Nature of Hazard: Understand hazards of the past, monitoring of present, and predicting the future.
Vulnerability: The extent of a communities susceptibility or resilience to loss or damage from a natural hazard.
Reducing disaster vulnerability requires increasing knowledge about the likelihood, consequences, imminence and presence of natural hazards, and empowering individuals, communities and public authorities with that knowledge to lower the risk before severe weather events, and respond immediately during and afterwards.
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Early warning
Empower individuals and communities to respond appropriately to a threat in order to reduce the risk of death, injury, property loss and damage.
Provide early warning of weather, water and climate hazards, for operational decisions
Support risk and impact assessments to determine who is at risk and why
To improve forecasts and analyses to help reduce or remove risks
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Temperature: Very Cold conditions
Maximum Temperature below 10 degrees Celsius
Minimum Temperature below -10 degrees Celsius
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Temperature: Very Cold conditions
Maximum Temperature below 10 degrees Celsius
Minimum Temperature below -10 degrees Celsius
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Very Cold conditions: Meteorology
EUMETSATMSG: Air-mass image 26 August 2008 07h00Z
Cold air moving from the far south
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Temperature: Very Cold conditions
Maximum Temperature below 10 degrees Celsius
Minimum Temperature below -10 degrees Celsius
Very Cold conditions: High Risk areas
EUMETSATMSG: Air-mass image 26 August 2008 07h00Z
• Mountains• High lying areas
Sutherland
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Snow
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Temperature: Very Cold conditions
Maximum Temperature below 10 degrees Celsius
Minimum Temperature below -10 degrees Celsius
Wind Chill conditions
EUMETSATMSG: Air-mass image 26 August 2008 07h00Z
• The colder effect that are felt on the skin as a result of cooling effect of the wind.• Felt on the skin and eventually the whole body.
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Temperature: Wind chill
Sensible temperature less than or equal to -15 degrees Celsius
Effects are worse under wet conditions
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Very Cold conditions: At Risk People
Mountaineers, climbers and hikers
Homeless peoplePeople in informal settlements
Added risk of FIRES
Senior citizens
Pets
The sickIncrease
electricity usage
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Temperature: Very High
Maximum Temperature 40 degrees Celsius and above
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Temperature: Very uncomfortable
Discomfort Index of 38 degrees Celsius and above
High temperatures and High humidity
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Temperature: Effects
Maximum Temperature 40 degrees Celsius and above
Sunburn Danger
Hikers
Sports
Diminishing Water
Resources
Traffic jams
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Temperature: Heat-wave
Three consecutive days when the Maximum temperatureis expected to be at least 5 degrees higher than the averageHigh Maximums of the hottest month.
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Temperature and Wind: Veld Fires
Weather conditions that could lead to runaway fires.
Depends on Temperature, wind conditions, humidity, condition of fuel etc.
Climate change:Longer fire season for west coast and adjacent interior, central Western Cape
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Wind: Gale force winds or higher
Winds speeds greater than 35kt or 65km/h
Risk of falling, fallen and blowing debris
Major effect on fishing Industry particularly off west coast
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Wind: Widespread sandstorms
Scouring effectVery low visibilityDangerous road conditionsDangerous flying conditions
Normally in windy, low vegetative areas: West coast north of Lamberts Bay
May become more prevalent in climate change scenarios
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Temperature: Black frost
The freezing of plant sap that results in black appearanceOf the plants.
Farmers and Gardeners
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Wind: Tornadoes
Harrismith
Manenberg, 1999
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Springbok!! In 2008
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Severe Thunderstorms
Lightning: Electricity spikes and power outages
Traffic jams:
Obvious danger to Aviation
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Hail stones more than 19mm
Property damage
Crop damage
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Heavy rain
80% probability of precipitation greater than 50mmover 24 hours
Very low visibility and slippery roadsDangerous road conditionsMay flood low lying areas
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Flooding
Damage to property
Erosion
Inaccessible roads
Damaged infrastructure
Debris
Raging rivers
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Maritime: Waves higher than 5m, 7m
Abnormal wave height
High wavesOffshore drillingFishing Industry
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Maritime: Tropical cyclones
LightningStorm Surge
Heavy rain and flooding
Huge waves
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Aviation: Large Hail
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Aviation: Severe Turbulence and Mountain waves
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Aviation: icing and Ice accretion
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Aviation: Volcanic Ash
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Regional Specialist Meteorological CentreHeavy rainfall
Strong Winds
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Early warning
Strive to ensure that every person or organization at risk• Receives the information • Understands the information• BELIEVES the information• Personalizes the risk• Make correct decisions• Respond in a timely manner
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Early warning
Effective early warning should be:• Short, concise, understandable and actionable
• What, where, when, why, how to respond
Should be presented in several different formats – text-graphics-color coded categories-audio; should included specific actions for people to take to respond to the event.
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Mountaineers_in_High_Tatry_mountains_winter.jpg
www.capetown.dj/people/people.html
http://www.jokesy.com/images/old-lady-senior-citizens-jokes1.jpg
http://happytrailsboardingkennel.com/sitebuilder/images/sick_puppy-600x319.jpg
http://weathersavvy.com/windysnow_OPT.jpg
http://ed101.bu.edu/StudentDoc/Archives/ED101fa06/mattwall/Weather%20Pictures/thunderstorm.jpg
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/2271578
http://www.iopara.ca/research.html
Early warning