Tropical Storms and Extreme Weather
Across
- 3. Actions taken before a hazard strikes to reduce its impact, such as educating people or improving building design.
- 4. Attempts to forecast when and where a natural hazard will strike, based on current knowledge. This can be done to some extent for tropical storms (and volcanic eruptions, but less reliably for earthquakes).
- 6. Tropical storm found in south-east Asia and Australia.
- 7. Tropical storm found in USA and the Caribbean.
- 9. Actions taken to enable communities to respond to, and recover from, natural disasters, through measures such as emergency evacuation plans, information management, communications and warning systems.
- 10. The result of Earth's rotation on weather patterns and ocean currents. This effect makes storms swirl clockwise in the Southern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
Down
- 1. An area of low pressure with winds moving in a spiral around the calm central point called the eye of the storm. Winds are powerful and rainfall is heavy.
- 2. Recording physical changes, such as tracking a tropical storm by satellite, to help forecast when and where a natural hazard might strike
- 5. Small area where relatively cold air sinks to the ground and warms up. No clouds here and conditions are calm.
- 8. Tropical storms found in Japan and the Philippines