Meaning and Types of Meteorological Hazards
What are Meteorological Hazards? Meteorological Hazards are extreme events, caused due to anomalies and instability in weather. Hazards like Cyclones, Tornadoes, Thunderstorms, Hailstorms, Cloudbursts all have enormous amount of energy to disrupt normal life and cause heavy damage to all life forms on Earth. Meteorological Hazards are weather related phenomena which are produced by certain imbalance in the Earth's atmosphere. These are violent and sudden events caused due to weather forming process and they cause serious damage to human lives and to the environment. Strong winds, excessive rainfall, extreme heat and the weather is mainly responsible for occurrence of meteorological hazards. Types of Meteorological Hazards: 1. Cyclones: The cyclones are irregular wind movements involving closed air circulation around a low pressure centre. This closed air circulation is caused by atmospheric disturbances over Earth's Surface. Cyclones are associated with destructive and viole...