Storms
A storm is any disturbed state of an environment or in an astronomical body's atmosphere especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather. It may be marked by significant disruptions to normal conditions such as strong wind, tornadoes, hail, thunder and lightning (a thunderstorm), heavy precipitation (snowstorm, rainstorm), heavy freezing rain (ice storm), strong winds (tropical cyclone, windstorm), or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere as in a dust storm, blizzard, sandstorm, etc. Storms have the potential to harm lives and property via storm surge, heavy rain or snow causing flooding or road impassibility, lightning, wildfires, and vertical …
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ADB: Asian Development Bank · 31 October 2024 English
The inaugural Asia-Pacific Climate Report offers an overview of the region’s evolving climate landscape, up-to-date public perceptions, and key areas for policy responses.
region will experience more extreme heat, floods, storms, and infectious diseases. Just 9 years after the … extreme heat and droughts, devastating floods and storms, and the spread of infectious diseases, are already … and increase drought occurrences. More severe storms and rising sea level are expected to increasingly …
World Bank Group · 31 October 2024 English
About 1.2 billion people - one in five people in the world – are at high risk from climate-related hazards, but much can be done to make people, business, communities, …
already led to record-breaking heatwaves, droughts, storms, floods, and wildfires. There is evidence that …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 31 October 2024 English
children and no food for my animals,” the mother of four says. The frequency and intensity of storms like the one that destroyed Justine’s crops is increasing due to climate change, according to the …
of four says. The frequency and intensity of storms like the one that destroyed Justine’s crops is …
World Bank Group · 31 October 2024 English
Although deaths and economic losses due to extreme heat are rising globally, heatwaves remain a "hidden hazard" whose impacts are underrecognized due to measurement and valuation challenges. Cities in India …
remain under-counted (Roberts et al 2023). Whereas storms, floods and earthquakes destroy physical assets …
IMF: International Monetary Fund · 31 October 2024 English
Economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa and Caucasus and Central Asia regions is projected to strengthen in the near term, but only to the extent that current …
severe storms in Libya, wildfires in Algeria, floods in Mauritania, Somalia, and Sudan, storms in Yemen …
World Bank Group · 31 October 2024 English
About 1.2 billion people - one in five people in the world – are at high risk from climate-related hazards, but much can be done to make people, business, communities, …
already led to record-breaking heatwaves, droughts, storms, floods, and wildfires. There is evidence that … climate extremes— including heatwaves, droughts, storms, floods, and wildfires—with vulnerable countries …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 31 October 2024 English
The inaugural Asia-Pacific Climate Report offers an overview of the region’s evolving climate landscape, up-to-date public perceptions, and key areas for policy responses.
more variable rainfall, along with more extreme storms, will bring increasing landslides and floods. … optimal temperatures (Park et al. 2020). Increasing storms and extreme weather events also lead to educational … responds to storms, utilizing a panel dataset from 1995 to 2006. The paper finds that intense storms (90th … assets, while average storms reduce fixed assets by 2.2%. Additionally, intense storms decrease sales by … by 7.8%, and average storms lead to a 3.1% drop in sales. Bantasan et al. (2024), using estimated coefficients …
WWA: World Weather Attribution · 31 October 2024 English
In the summer of 2003, a devastating heatwave killed more than 70,000 people across Europe.
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 31 October 2024 English
The inaugural Asia-Pacific Climate Report offers an overview of the region’s evolving climate landscape, up-to-date public perceptions, and key areas for policy responses.
extreme heat and droughts, devastating floods and storms, and the spread of infectious diseases, are already … and increase drought occurrences. More severe storms and rising sea level are expected to increasingly …
WHO: World Health Organization · 31 October 2024 English
The Roadmap on antimicrobial resistance for the WHO European Region 2023–2030supports Member States to identify, prioritize, implement and monitor high impactinterventions to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Organized aroundan AMR Compass, …
and intensity of extreme weather events, such as storms and floods, leads to the disruption of water and …