2 MM である。 本中で べられている順番となる 2 し、 同じもの 】に入るものを選びなきい The United States had the jargest number of big storms 2 The hurri ane killed over 00 people jn the southern USA Because it was too hot many people died in France り The fmrSt hnrricane which started in the South Aantie 0eean happened! | The temperature in the Mediterranean Sea became very hot from May to July。 1 illed over 60 people through three countrie: -瑞 The strongest hurricane

誠tiing 5 happening to our weather 本 了 E weather There have been big loods* and long dreugh Sand long droughe and big storms rms in the HH he past The past is full of examples or estreme* weauher 語mg inds 才diHference iS that now ettei 人 S Aat noW extreme weather is happening more often LeES ICOR at 86me arnples, In France、 during the month of August 2003.nearly 15000 people died because Qt he het BRBTESCDDGEPBIBI 肌 weather。 The problem was not just that it was hot but that it was so hot tor so long Weather like this is called a heat Wave、 Im Paris the temperature* duting the day Was above 5 August the temperature during the night did not tal below 35で for nine days。 And on 2 25C。【 Q① Why did the hot we: Rer happen? We know 46 happened: the Niediterrane became very warm in Nay amd the months of June and July were unususly* hot But We do EQing to get we think that this problem net Know exactly* ithappened。An during the twenty-frst century k that these heat Waves Wil increase Scientists now ntal Europe。 the west of the United States、and East Asia hat WaNGS They think that in で an they do now。【 @ 】 wil last perhaps* hwo days longer 1 changing Hurricanes (also called cycloneS or Heat waves are not the only thingS that storms* that start in the oceans。 They can tvphoons im some parts of the World) are W sea temperature goes above 27で、While they move acrGsS the sea、 they only start when the need more warm water to gTow. [they move acroSS COMQeT WSKT they get weakeri 【 S 1 Tm 2004 the year after the heat Wave in France一there were a lot of hurricanes。 Japan ha For both countries. this Was the largest number of big d the United States had five TL was dso in 2004 that Brazil had Hurricane Catarina -the hrst hurricane 1 stormms in one yea But the following year. 2005. was the year that gOt no to start in the South 人Atlantic Ocean・ This was the year of .Hurricane Katrina。 Which killed more newspapers around the world hundreds of homes in New Orleans in southern USA tan 1800 people and destroyed* @ 1 Katrina WaS 4 SITOHE jurricane. but it was not the strongest hurricane of al That Was Mexico、 Cubau and 者jmrieane Wilma which also happened in 2005. Wilma passed acroi There are NNe xty people and destroying hundreds of buildingS。 内orida killing more than

Eategories* of hurrican es om a Category 1 hurricane、 which moves at 120 kilometers per jiour, to a Category 5 hur cane at more than 250 kilometers per hour。 Katrina and Wilma were both Category 5 hurric es. Since 1970 we have had about the same number ot huirricanes every year, but the number ot Category 4 and 5 hurricanes ( 6 ) Hurricanes e getting stronger て e Cge。 Barnaby Newbolt ? flood(s」 ト水 drought(S, ば CH temperature 気温 the nSea 地中海 【 exactl 確に 殖える perhaps ひょっとする stornn(s 【 。 weak(er) 弱い the number of h Atlantic Ocean zories(cate