Disaster Risk Reduction Flashcards
where the sun heats the Earth’s surface during the day and warms the air around it.
Cumulus Stage
A cumulus cloud becomes very large, where the water therein becomes large and heavy, and raindrops begin to fall through the cloud when the rising air can no longer hold them up.
Mature Stage
After 30 minutes, thunderstorm begins to dissipate, this occurs when the downdrafts in the cloud begins to dominate over the updraft. Since warm moist air can no longer rise, cloud droplets can no longer form.
Dissipating Stage
“Daluyong ng Bagyo” in the Philippine system where the irregular sea-level rise during tropical cyclone or “bagyo” occurs.
Storm Surge
Means The Little Boy, or Christ Child in Spanish.
El Nino
means The Little Girl in Spanish. La Niña is also sometimes called El Viejo, anti-El Niño, or simply “a cold event”
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La Nina
refers to the above-average sea-surface temperatures that periodically develop across the east-central equatorial Pacific. It represents the warm phase of the ENSO cycle.
El nino
refers to the periodic cooling of sea-
surface temperatures across the east-central equatorial Pacific.
La nina
This is a powerful, short-lived weather disturbance, almost always associated with lightning, thunder, dense clouds, heavy rain and fast, roaring winds.
Thunderstorm
are seasonal wind & rain pattern
Monsoons
is a narrow violently rotating column of air that extends from rain (thunderstorm) clouds to the ground
Tornado
is the hazard brought by heavy rains where there is a progressive rise in the water level
Flood
are caused by heavy rain or the sudden release of water over a short period of time. Flash floods are also caused by heavy precipitation in a short period of time, usually less than 6 hours.
Flash Flood
Northeast Monsoon
-brings cloudless skies & cold morning (October-March)
Amihan
Southeast Monsoon
-brings heavy rains (June-September)
Habagat
