Snow Covered almost all of UK, frost damaged crops, especially sugar beet and the use of gas and electricity was more than double, increasing CO² Emissions
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What were the social impacts?
Several people died from hypothermia, especially OAP's, Lots of water pipes froze and burst and schools closed.
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How many schools closed on the 2nd of December?
7000+
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How many homes and businesses in northern Ireland were without water for over a week
40,000
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What were the economic impacts?
Transport networks damaged, some motorways shut, people could not commute, effected the UK's economy, overall economic impact was 1.6bn, enough to reduce the GDP by 0.5%
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Why did this occur?
Cold air from Northern Europe and Siberia
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How to predict tropical storms
Data from satellites, radar and aircraft is used to monitor the storm
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What are the benefits of prediction?
People have time to organise their evacuation and protect their
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What were the environmental impacts?
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Snow Covered almost all of UK, frost damaged crops, especially sugar beet and the use of gas and electricity was more than double, increasing CO² Emissions
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What were the social impacts?
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How many schools closed on the 2nd of December?
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How many homes and businesses in northern Ireland were without water for over a week
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