Wednesday, April 11, 2012

vocabulary notebook12

  exs-1.  freak    -     hailstorm
     heavy    -   rain
     minor    -   earthquake
     flash      -   flood
     catastrophic         wildfire
 
exs-2
    1. A building was damaged by lighting.
2. Electrical power was disrupted by an ice storm yesterday.
3. Two people were severely injured.
4. The village was struck by lighting.
    
  exs-3.   1. Freak accident is become after nature’s effect .
            2. Heavy traffic is become after a lot rain.
           3. Major earthquake is very much bad effect.
           4. minor injure is become after light accident or to drive careless.

On your own
                     
 Antarctica
Located near the South Geomagnetic Pole, and at the lofty of around Russian research station at Vostok the coldest, temperature on the planet -89.2°C.
                  Rainiest Location
                  Debundscha, Cameroon is Africa's wettest place, averaging 10,287 millimetres (405                                                                                           .                inches) of rain a year
Driest Place
Less than 2.54 millimetres (0.1 inches) of rain falls a year, on average, at Wadi Halfa, Sudan, making this the driest place in Africa
Fastest Wind
The highest wind speed ever recorded in the world was a 408 kilometres per hour (253 miles per hour) wind gust that hit Barrow Island, Australia during Tropical Cyclone Olivia on April 10, 1996. That record-setting wind was accompanied by four other extreme gusts, ranging from 298 to 374 kilometres per hour (185 to 232 miles per hour)
Snowiest City:
 Saguenay, Quebec averages 3.4 metres (11 feet) of snowfall a year
Wettest Location: Henderson Lake, British Columbia received 9082 millimetre

Wettest Location

The recognized record for South America's rainiest place is Quibdo, Colombia, which on average receives 8,990 millimetres (354 inches) of precipication annually. Unofficially, though, it's believed that Lloro, Colombia is much wetter, where it's estimated an average 3,300 millimetres (523.6 inches) of rain falls each year.

Most Rainy Days

In Bahia Felix, Chile, rain falls on more days than anywhere else in the world. It rains there an average of 325 days a year.

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