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Summer anticyclone

An anticyclone in summer brings warm, clear, sunny settled weather. High daytime temperature can cause convectional rainfall

in late afternoon.

Clouds can form as the falling cool air mixes with smoke and pollution. At night there is rapid heat loss due to lack of sunshine.

This can bring morning dew, which is water droplets on the surface.

• Droughts

• Heat stroke and dehydration

• Low level ozone

• Smog

• UV-light causing cancer and cataracts

• increase in breathing problems

• Forest fires

• High pollen levels and fungal spores

• Traffic

• Road damage

• Over crowded beaches

• Barbeques

• increase in children’s death

• Water being given from helicopters

Social

Families at beaches

People stranded

Avoiding exercise and unnecessary short car journeys

solvents in paint, glues and nail varnish releases chemicals in the ozone

Economic

Traffic jams Avoid over filling or spilling petrol tanks

Drivers switch off engines if not in use

Environmental

droughts

smog

High ozone levels

Temperature up to 24 c – 30 c

• Nice weather

• Barbeques

• Beaches full• people stranded

• breathing difficulties

• traffic jams

• thirsty people

• drowning

• Strength of sun

• lanes closed

• Jumping off high rocks