eliza chandni uk heatwave
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Summer anticyclone
An anticyclone in summer brings warm, clear, sunny settled weather. High daytime temperature can cause convectional rainfall
in late afternoon.
Clouds can form as the falling cool air mixes with smoke and pollution. At night there is rapid heat loss due to lack of sunshine.
This can bring morning dew, which is water droplets on the surface.
• Droughts
• Heat stroke and dehydration
• Low level ozone
• Smog
• UV-light causing cancer and cataracts
• increase in breathing problems
• Forest fires
• High pollen levels and fungal spores
• Traffic
• Road damage
• Over crowded beaches
• Barbeques
• increase in children’s death
• Water being given from helicopters
Social
Families at beaches
People stranded
Avoiding exercise and unnecessary short car journeys
solvents in paint, glues and nail varnish releases chemicals in the ozone
Economic
Traffic jams Avoid over filling or spilling petrol tanks
Drivers switch off engines if not in use
Environmental
droughts
smog
High ozone levels
Temperature up to 24 c – 30 c
• Nice weather
• Barbeques
• Beaches full• people stranded
• breathing difficulties
• traffic jams
• thirsty people
• drowning
• Strength of sun
• lanes closed
• Jumping off high rocks