Tuesday, September 2, 2014

CLIMATE CHANGE

WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE?
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years.

WHAT ARE THE FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE CLIMATE?
Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics and volcanic eruption.

WHAT IS THE TYPE OF CLIMATE IN BULACAN? SAN MIGUEL? 
The Climate of Bulacan as well as San Miguel is dry from November to April and wet from April to November.

DESCRIBE THE EXTENT DAMAGE IN THE AFFECTED AREAS OF TYPHOON GLENDA

  • A total of 153 families or 536 persons were affected in Barangay 88 in Tacloban City, Leyte in Region VIII.
  • A total of 5872 passengers, 33 vessels, 497 rolling cargoes, 11 motor banca's, and 26 vessels taking shelter were stranded at various parts.
  • A total of 40 provinces/ cities / municipalities declared class suspensions in various levels in Region III, IV-A, IV-B, V, VII, NCR and ARMM.
  • A total of 30 domestic flights and 4 international flights have been cancelled.

    WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL NAME FOR TYPHOON GLENDA?
    The International name for typhoon glenda is Rammasun.
 
COMPARISON BETWEEN TYPHOON GLENDA, HENRY AND INDAY
Typhoon Rammasun, known in the Philippines as Glenda, was a powerfultropical cyclone that had destructive impacts across the Philippines, South China and Vietnam in July 2014. It was the seventh storm of the season to be named by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). Rammasun is a Siamese word for thunder god. After Lingling and Kajiki earlier in 2014, Rammasun became the third tropical cyclone, and the first typhoon to directly impact the Philippines in 2014. The storm formed in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, an area near the equator where the northeast an southeast trade winds come together, and slowly drifted northwestwards.
Typhoon Henry has been assigned by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) to three tropical cyclones in the western Pacific.
Typhoon Inday has been used in the Philippines by PAGASA in the Western Pacific 2014's Severe Tropical Storm Nakri.

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