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What are the main meteorological disasters?

Major meteorological disasters

1, tropical cyclone, tropical cyclone is the general name of strong vortex with high center temperature and low pressure formed in tropical marine atmosphere. It is a very destructive weather phenomenon, which will lead to severe weather such as strong winds, heavy rains, huge waves and storm surges.

2. The wind and hail disaster refers to the disaster caused by the ice cubes condensed in the cumulonimbus falling from the air under the control of convective weather.

3. Drought refers to the serious shortage of precipitation in a long enough period, which leads to the loss of soil moisture due to evaporation and the reduction of river flow, and undermines normal crop growth and human activities.

Meteorological disaster refers to the direct or indirect damage caused by the atmosphere to human life and property, national economic construction and national defense construction. Natural disasters will cause losses of millions to tens of billions of yuan, and also cause countless casualties in disaster areas.

Meteorological disaster is one of natural disasters. It mainly includes tropical storms in Asia, typhoons in coastal cities of China, drought, high temperature, mountain torrents, thunderstorms and sandstorms in northern China. Hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, heavy rain and heavy snow are common in North America. China is one of the few countries with frequent natural disasters in the world. There are many kinds of disasters and the losses are very serious.