2006-07-21 12:36:59 · 17 answers · asked by babycakes_rocks 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
The most dangerous weather, defined as events which inflict the heaviest tolls in human life, are storms which produce massive floods through intense precipitation or
massive tidal surges.
Incidentally, such floods are the worst of all natural disasters in terms of the numbers of deaths. Floods kill more people than earthquakes or any other natural disaster.
Source: BA Physical Geography
2006-07-21 12:42:20 · answer #1 · answered by Bender 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Tornados...they just hit. You can't get away. You can hide, but they can come on likity split and be gone just as fast doing tons of damage. With an earthquake, now it can be almost predicted within the month frame and a hurricane is predicted up to a week previous. You can escape. No one has ever said oh, yes, and on Tuesday next week we will probably have tornados. Even the tsunami was predicted many hours earlier. The warning system was just not good enough to get to the people.
2006-07-21 21:52:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never been in or even seen a tornado but it is what I fear the most. Hurricanes I do know and they can be very dangerous.
2006-07-21 19:41:07 · answer #3 · answered by Moon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earthquakes have nothing to do with weather. Tornadoes get my vote.
2006-07-21 19:41:04 · answer #4 · answered by tina m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heat wave. Way more people die from high heat than anything else. I just saw a presentation on this at work. It isn't even close. That is overall, however. For an individual event, earthquake or Tsunami, because they are so large.
2006-07-21 19:40:30 · answer #5 · answered by terraform_mars 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you include earthquakes, I assume you really mean natural disastrous and therefore my answer must be....
A Big Butt Asteroid! One killed everything on the planet once, I'd say that's pretty dangerous.
2006-07-21 19:40:29 · answer #6 · answered by Enigma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Chris42050, hurricanes. Having both water and wind is a double whammy! Thank God those don't occur where I live and I would never choose to live where they do.
2006-07-21 22:15:56 · answer #7 · answered by Goldenrain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say a hurricane, after what happened last year.
Or a freak blizzard, that comes with little to no warning, catching people unprepared.
2006-07-21 19:40:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
earth quakes
ah but earthquakes and weather go hand in hand.
heat is when we know its coming
2006-07-21 19:39:04 · answer #9 · answered by St Guido 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well more accurately you mean what acts of nature are the most dangerous. Floods kill the most.
2006-07-21 21:28:55 · answer #10 · answered by anonymourati 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋