What are the meteorological disasters?

Meteorology mainly includes: rainstorm, waterlogging, drought, dry hot wind, high temperature, heat wave, tropical cyclone, chilling injury, freezing injury, freezing rain, icing, snow injury, hail, wind injury, tornado, lightning, continuous rain (rainy), dense fog, low-level wind shear and so on.

Meteorological disasters include tropical storms in Asia, typhoons in coastal cities of China, droughts, high temperatures, flash floods, thunderstorms and sandstorms in northern China.

Characteristics of meteorological disasters:

Meteorological disaster refers to the disaster caused by meteorological reasons, which is the most common disaster phenomenon in natural disasters. From the global and China's meteorological disasters, meteorological disasters have the following characteristics: the loss of life and property caused is very serious; The continuity characteristics of disasters such as drought and flood are obvious; Group occurrence is prominent, and multiple meteorological disasters often occur at the same time; It has obvious regional characteristics; High frequency and strong seasonality; There are many kinds, which are easy to cause secondary disasters.

Meteorological disasters can be divided into two categories: weather disasters and climate disasters.

Weather disaster: refers to disasters caused by large-scale or local, persistent or sudden, short-term strong abnormal weather, such as large-scale cold wave, typhoon and other weather disasters or local heavy rain, hail, tornado and other disasters. These disasters are often accompanied by strong winds, heavy rains and cooling.

Climate disaster: refers to disasters caused by large-scale, long-term and persistent climate anomalies, such as floods, droughts, chilling injuries and other disasters caused by long-term high and low temperatures and too little precipitation.