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    This document discusses various hydrometeorological hazards including El Niño, La Niña, tropical cyclones, thunderstorms, hailstorms, tornadoes, floods, flash floods, drought, heatwaves, cold spells, and storm surges. It provides details on the signs and impacts of these hazards. It also discusses the role of PAGASA, the Philippine government agency responsible for weather forecasting, in monitoring and predicting these hydrometeorological phenomena.

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    This document discusses various hydrometeorological hazards including El Niño, La Niña, tropical cyclones, thunderstorms, hailstorms, tornadoes, floods, flash floods, drought, heatwaves, cold spells, and storm surges. It provides details on the signs and impacts of these hazards. It also discusses the role of PAGASA, the Philippine government agency responsible for weather forecasting, in monitoring and predicting these hydrometeorological phenomena.

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    E.

    EL NIÑO & LA NIÑA

    EL NIÑO
    The term El Niño refers to the large-scale ocean-
    atmosphere climate interaction linked to
    a periodic warming in sea surface temperatures
    across the central and east-central
    Equatorial Pacific.

    BATANGAS EMERGENCY
    NUMBERS:
    Fire Station 043-723-7299
    Police Station 043-723-2030
    Red Cross Batangas 043-723-3027

    SUBMITTED BY:
    Hydro-
    Del Mundo, Jainah D.
    STEM 11- Hydrogen meteorological
    LA NIÑA
    La Niña episodes represent periods of below-
    Hazards
    average sea surface temperatures across the
    east-central Equatorial Pacific. Global climate La
    Niña impacts tend to be opposite those
    of El Niño impacts. In the tropics, ocean DISASTER READINESS
    temperature variations in La Niña also tend to
    be opposite those of El Niño. AND RISK REDUCTION
    Hydrometeorological
    Hazards
    Hydrometeorological Hazards are the process
    or phenomenon of atmospheric, hydrological or
    oceanographic nature that may cause loss of life,
    injury or other health impacts, property damage,
    B. THUNDERSTORM
    loss of livelihoods and services, social and
    This is a powerful, short-lived weather
    economic disruption, or environmental damage. disturbance, almost always
    associated with lightning, thunder,
    It include tropical cyclones (also known as dense clouds, heavy rain or hail, and
    typhoons and hurricanes), thunderstorms, fast, roaring winds. Thunderstorms
    hailstorms, tornados, blizzards, heavy snowfall, occur when layers of dry, moist air
    avalanches, coastal storm surges, floods including rise to cooler regions of the
    flash floods, drought, heatwaves and cold spells. atmosphere in a broad, rapid updraft.

    SIGNS OF IMPENDING HYDRO- C. FLOOD & FLASHFLOOD D.STORM SURGE


    METEOROLOGICAL HAZARDS Flood is a high-water stage in which water
    overflows its natural or artificial banks Storm surge or "Daluyong ng Bagyo" in
    onto normally dry land, such as a river the Philippine system where the irregular
    A. Tropical cyclone
    inundating its floodplain. The effects of sea-level rise during tropical cyclone or
    It is also called typhoon or hurricane, an
    floods on human well-being range from "bagyo" occurs. When the tropical cyclone
    intense circular storm that originates over
    warm tropical oceans and is characterized by unqualified blessings to catastrophes. reaches the coast, powerful winds force the
    low atmospheric pressure, high winds, and ocean water over the coastal low-lying areas,
    heavy rain. which can lead to flooding.
    PAGASA takes many technological
    PHILIPPINE ATMOSPHERIC GEOPHYSICAL considerations into account when forecasting
    AND ASTRONOMICAL SERVICES
    the negative impacts of a storm surge. For
    ADMINISTRATION
    storm surge prone communities, the most
    (PAGASA)
    important considerations are the strength of
    It stated that WEATHER FORECAST is a the tropical cyclone; the height of the surge,
    scientific estimate of future weather and the community located in the low-lying
    condition, wherein a weather condition is a area.
    state of the atmosphere at a given time
    expressed in terms of the most significant
    variables.

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