London - Local Area Hazard Risks

Kensal Rise Tornado
1. 7th December 2006
2. 11:02am
3. T4 on the TORRO scale
4. Strong Atlantic low pressure system
5. Ulrike
6. Caused very unstable weather conditions to the UK but mainly in the South
7. A drop in humidity was recorded, this is likely to have caused an increase in atmospheric pressure
  1. Causing the squall line to move forward at an accelerated pace
8. Damages were estimated at £10 million
9. 6 people were injured
10. 100 properties damaged
11. Caused a school to close for a week due to a collapsed roof
12. Cars damaged
13. Potential to cause water contamination
Summer Heat wave
1. 2003
2. Researchers say that this heat wave was the hottest on the continent for at least 5 centuries
3. Atlantic cyclones brought cool and wet weather for a short period at the end of July
  1. Temperatures started to increase substantially from the 3rd of August
4. Temperatures reached 38.5 degrees
5. According to the BBC more than 2,000 people than usual died in the UK
6. Many suffered heat stroke, dehydration, sun burns and deaths from air pollution
7. People drowned from trying to cool off in rivers
8. There was an increase in skin cancer
9. Drinking water supplies were effected
10. Hose pipe bans
11. Agriculture was effected
12. Animals died
13. Tourism increased
14. Railways buckled
15. Undergrounds became unbearable
16. Some road surfaces had melted
17. Cost European farmers 13.1 billion euros
Drought
1. Summer 2006
2. Worst drought since 1976
3. This came about as a result of two successive winters of below average rainfall
4. Agriculture suffered
5. Hose pine bans
6. Cracks appeared in the soil which was leading to unstable foundations
7. Low low in rivers meant that pollution had a greater impact on the environment
8. Fish were more likely to die because of low flow, low oxygen levels and higher water temperatures.
Severe fog
1. December 2006
2. High pressure became slow moving for several days
3. Locally freezing fog which in some locations lasted 3 to 5 days
4. In many places visibility was reduced to below 100m and below 30m in some cases
5. Transport was effected
6. Fog caused problems on the roads with one man killed in a crash
7. Police appealed to motorist to slow down and keep their distance
8. Up to 70,000 people suffered delays or cancellations at airports
Floods
1. Thames Flood plain
2. Thames flood barrier was opened in 1984 - cost around £534 million to build
3. Water contamination
4. Death
5. Injury
6. Damage to infrastructure
7. Disease
8. Damage to crops
9. Insurance will increase
10. Emotional damage
11. Sendimental loss
12. 1982 flood killed 302 people
Air pollution
1. Kills more people than obesity in the UK
2. Causes respiratory diseases

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