Mango-Severe Weather

T3 W7 - Mango - Severe Weather SJ SL 3

WALT understand different kinds of severe weather.

WALT think critically about some of the effects that different weather patterns can have.

Interesting or Tricky Words	Meaning
met service	A new Zealand organization
Gale force	a very strong wind between 58 to 128
Lyttelton	Lyttelton is a town in lyttelton harbour
Fierce	Fiercer fiercest or aggressive
Communities	our surrounding's
Guillaume	Ocean gravity
Radder	Can detect clouds
severe	Something very extreme
Cyclone Giselle	Cyclone Giselle was the worst storm ever recorded in new Zealand it hit Cape Rheingau early in the morning in 1968.
continent	One of the seven large land’s

2. Choose one of the subheadings in your text. Summaries the information in your own words - one paragraph.

Cyclones

A tropical cyclone are huge cloud that looks like a big tornado over the water. Cyclones bring storms and heavy ran and it can bring gale force wind which means a very strong wind. Eight to ten cyclones start in the south pacific every year. Most year’s one cyclone will reach NZ. In other countries, storms with strong  winds are called hurricanes or typhoons. Each tropical cyclone has a name. Cyclone Giselle merged with a smaller storm, it hit the North island 10th of April 1968.


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