Severe Weather Assignment Due before class

Part 1
Questions on Severe Weather from 2011 video
Please watch this video about extreme weather events (you will have to first sit through a commercial), and answer the following questions pertaining to the information given in the video. Short answers are fine.
1) List three types of severe weather that struck the United States in 2011.

2) Give the average number of extreme weather events in the US and then give the number in 2011.
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3) What cost in damages defines an extreme weather event according to Katherine Sullivan from NOAA?

4) What are two of the three remarkable events from 2011 described by Jeff Masters?

5) According to Jeff Masters, how does global warming amplify intense weather? List a type of event that is amplified in this way.

6) Why kind of event occurred in Joplin, Missouri that was remarkable?

7) What type of event is Jeff Masters’ main concern in terms of weather related to climate change?

8) How are operations at NOAA being changed to improve our preparedness for major weather events?

Part 2
Questions about the 2015-2016 winter we just experienced, and how it compares to the longer-term predictions that you read about in the Northeast Climate Assessment Report. Please read about our just-past “meteorological winter” here, and answer the following questions.

1) What is meant by the term “meteorological winter”?

2) What is the main point of this article?

3) Was there anything significant about Connecticut’s recent weather that was mentioned in the article?

4) Do the characteristics of the weather we just had this winter fit the longer-term predictions in the Northeast Climate Assessment Report?

5) Considering only the data from this winter, can you determine that we are experiencing global warming here in the Northeast?

6) What are three other trends concerning the weather/climate that we can expect to experience here in the Northeast?