THE CAUSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE DANGEROUS METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA WHICH OCCURRED IN THE INTERVAL 18TH-20TH MAY 2008, IN THE WESTERN ROMANIAN PLAIN
Journal Title: Present Environment and Sustainable Development - Year 2010, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
This paper provides a case study of the dangerous meteorological phenomena which took place in the interval 18 - 20 May 2008, in the Western part of Romania. During this period, the Southern and South-Eastern regions of Europe entered the influence of a very hot air mass of tropical origin. By contrast, a cold, humid and unstable air mass pressed on from the North-West of Europe, carried along by the dorsal of the Greenland Anticyclone. Upon the contact of these two air masses characterised by significant thermobaric differences, in the unstable conditions created, a number of dangerous meteorological phenomena took place, manifested in the West of the country in the form of intense lightning, torrential showers, hail and squall. The effects of these dangerous phenomena were numerous: hundreds of hectares of crops compromised; houses, bridges and roads destroyed by floods, hail and wind; trees brought down by squall; localities suffered shortages in electricity or drinking water; buildings caught fire; livestock and domestic animals perished etc. In the following days the dangerous meteorological phenomena caused massive destruction almost everywhere else in the country.
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Eugenia Şerban, Florin Moldovan
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