Spatial Distribution
In the Western Pacific, Indian ocean, and North America.
Where/ What is clusters?
The minimum water temperature needed for a tropical storm to form
What is 26.5c?
Where soil gives way and falls down a hill/ slope
What is a landslide?
11
How many people died during the storm.
The more extreme form of reducing damage to high risk areas.
What is relocation?
Where the appears to be storms either sider of the equator between latitudes 5-20.
What is the linear pattern of tropical storms?
Shortened to the acronym ITCZ
What is the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone?
960hpa
What was the lowest air pressure reading from the storm?
The main highways that limited access to the area
What are SH2 and SH5? (also accept 35 and 50)
The highest warning level Metservice issues when weather poses a direct risk to life.
What is a red warning?
Because when storms pass over land, they no longer have the moisture or energy to sustain themselves.
Why do tropical storms not form or increase over large continent?
It causes the air to spin as it rises
What is the Coriolis Force?
About 2-3 metres higher now.
What change happened to the flood plains?
The estimated cost of the damage
What is about 14 billion $?
Introduced by the NZ Government in 2019 to combat climate change
What is the Zero Carbon Act?
Because the further from the equator, generally the colder the water.
Why do storms not form in higher latitudes?
A high altitude wind the creates a more powerful suction effect at the top of the storm which then causes more air to be pulled in at the base.
What is a Jetstream?
The amount of rain scientists believed fell each minute for 6 hours during the peak of the storm.
What is 72 Olympic sized swimming pools?
The number of properties deemed unsuitable to be rebuilt
What is 700 across NZ,/ 200 in Hawkes Bay?
Because warm air holds more moisture
Why is the risk of heavy rain increasing due to climate change?
Because these ocean currents carry cold water.
Why do storms not usually form in the Eastern Pacific or South Atlantic?
All three of these D words can be used to describe the end of a Tropical storms existence
What is decay, dissipate, die?
The amount of silt removed from the Esk Valley post Cyclone Gabrielle.
What is up to 20 million tonnes?
The percentage of vintage wine destroyed in the region
What is 25%?
A 2021 repot highlighting the unique vulnerabilities Maori face from future disasters
What is He huinga Ahuarangi he Huringa Ao/ A changing climate, a changing world?