What is a meteorological disaster?

Meteorological disasters generally include weather, climate disasters and meteorological secondary and derivative disasters. Weather and climate disasters refer to disasters directly caused by typhoon, rainstorm, snow, thunderstorm, hail, gale, dust, tornado, fog, high temperature, low temperature, continuous rain, freezing rain, frost, freezing, cold wave, drought, heat wave and flood.

Meteorological secondary and derivative disasters refer to landslides, mudslides, storm surges, forest fires, acid rain, air pollution and other disasters caused by meteorological factors.

There are more than 20 kinds of meteorological disasters, mainly the following.

(1) rainstorm: mountain torrents, river flooding and urban water accumulation;

(2) Rain and waterlogging: waterlogging;

(3) Drought: drought in agriculture, forestry and grassland, and water shortage in industry, cities and rural areas;

(4) Dry-hot wind: dry-hot wind and foehn wind;

(5) High temperature heat wave: extreme heat and high temperature, human diseases, burns, and crop ripening;

(6) Tropical cyclones: gale, rainstorm and flood;

(7) Cold damage: crops, livestock and fruit trees are harmed by strong cooling and low temperature;

(8) Freezing injury: frost, crop and livestock freezing injury, water pipes and oil pipes freezing injury;

(9) Freezing rain: wires, branches and roads are frozen;

(10) Freezing: rivers, lakes and seas freeze, and roads freeze after rain and snow;

(1 1) Snow damage: snowstorm, snow;

(12) Hail disaster: destroying crops and houses;

(13) Wind disaster: falling trees, reversing houses, reversing cars and reversing boats;

(14) Tornado: local destructive disaster;

(15) Lightning: lightning casualties;

(16) Continuous rain (lewd rain): it is not conducive to crop growth and development, grain mildew, etc.

(17) dense fog: human diseases and traffic jams;

(18) low-altitude windshear: aviation accident;

(19) acid rain: crops are harmed.