Severe Storms
Once a touchdown occurs it has the potential to uproot trees, damage roofs, and throw automobiles that are in its path.
What is a Tornado?
A trembling of the ground caused by the sudden movement of large sections of the earth’s outermost crust.
What is an Earthquake?
The City of Baltimore's combined hazard mitigation and climate adaptation plan.
What is a DP3 Plan?
Disaster Preparedness and Planning Project
The most populous city in Maryland and home to some of the largest ports on the east coast of the U.S.
What is the City of Baltimore?
Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.
What are Greenhouse Gases (GHG)?
A rain-bearing cloud that also produces lighting.
What is a Thunderstorm?
When water inundates normally dry coastal land because of high tides or storm surges.
What is Coastal Flooding?
The capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties.
What is Resilience?
Based in Baltimore, this team won the World Series titles in 1966, 1970, and 1983.
What is the Baltimore Orioles?
The increase in the water volume in the ocean due to ice melt and thermal expansion.
What is Sea Level Rise?
This is a combination of heavy snow, blowing snow, and dangerous wind chills.
What is a Winter Storm?
A deficiency of precipitation over an extended period of time resulting in a water shortage.
What is a Drought?
Any action that reduces or eliminates long-term risk to people, property, and the environment from hazards or disasters, such as floods, earthquakes, wildfires, and more.
What is Hazard Mitigation?
Founded in 1876, this is an educational institution named after a Baltimore merchant.
What is Johns Hopkins University?
A French word for 'Ice' that moves slowly over land. Holds three-quarters of the Earth's freshwater.
What is a Glacier (ice sheet)?
Severe weather center which reports and alerts the community leading up to, or in the event, of a severe storm event.
What is the National Weather Service?
A prolonged period of time with temperatures above the average high for the City of Baltimore.
What is Extreme Heat?
Is an office that is a resource, catalyst, and advocate for a sustainable and resilient Baltimore.
What is Baltimore Office of Sustainability?
The largest estuary in the United States and is 193 miles long.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
The process that results in increased vulnerability to climate variability and change, directly or indirectly. Also, can undermine capacities and opportunities for adaptation.
What is Maladaptation?
Widespread, long-lasting winds that can travel over 250 miles at a speed of up to 60 mph. Severely impacts infrastructure and communication lines.
What is a Derecho?
Also referred to as high-tide flooding or tidal flooding, occurs when local sea levels temporarily rise above the threshold height for flooding.
What is Nuisance Flooding?
Sustainable planning, design, environmental management, and engineering practices that weave natural features or processes into the built environment to promote adaption and resilience.
What is a Nature-Based Solution?
This is when the City of Baltimore was founded.
What is 1729?
The increase in volume of water when it gets warmer.
What is Thermal Expansion?