You need to know a little about tropical storms - where they occur, conditions needed to create them and where they hit. In lesson you put together a map of tropical storms - the picture above shows what they are called in different world regions.
Tropical storms are also known as:
Hurricanes North Atlantic
Typhoons Pacific
Tropical Cyclones South East Asia
Willy-Willies Australia
Conditions required for formation:
Over Oceans
Ocean temperature over 27°c
Water heated to a depth of several metres
Close to the East Coast of continents
Late summer or early Autumn, when sea temperatures are at their highest.
We are going to look at two case studies (MEDC and LEDC and then compare them. The LEDC case study is Cyclone One Bravo, Bangladesh, May 1997; the MEDC case study is MEDC Storm Hurricane Floyd. Future posts will help with information about these!
