In the Northern Hemisphere in 2017 and 2018 brought several destructive hurricanes to the shores of North America, the Caribbean, and throughout the Pacific rim. Such extreme weather events are predicted to get more common and more severe with increasing climate change.
Several participating classes in the ISCFC were or are in the path of these storms and we hope for the best for them, their families and communities.
We would love to hear from students affected directly and indirectly by extreme weather events, and also any students who have been following the news this summer.
What are your thoughts about the connection between climate change and extreme weather events? Has this hurricane season increased your concern about climate change or not? Do you think that US citizens and residents (and others in the region) will take climate change more seriously now?
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Extreme Weather
There are various versions of extreme weather such as heatwaves, droughts, and floods. Heatwaves are when there is an unusual amount of heat for a temporary period of time. A drought is when an area is left dry because there is significantly less rainfall. A flash flood takes place in small watersheds, mainly ones with steep hills.
As I looked at the website that you linked I found it fascinating that the difference of our Earth is completely different from 20 to 30 years ago. And I noticed that reading the article in the past 50 years these problems starting to occur more and more often, excessively high temperatures, heavy downpours, and in some regions, severe floods and droughts. But there is one thing that I noticed that started to confuse me is, that why are heatwaves more occurring in the states in the South than any other place in the World? This really makes me think that the states in the South are doing much worse activities than states in the North, East, or West.