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Ophelia: teaching resources

We’ve pulled together some resources about ex-hurricane Ophelia, bringing together information about tropical cyclones, depressions, anticyclones and air masses to explore the extremely unusual weather we experienced in mid-October.

Ophelia PowerPoint

Further information is available in this article from Geography Review.

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Extreme weather

Blown away: the physical facts of hurricanes Harvey and Irma

Philip Monk, a teacher who has worked with the Society on a few projects, has written this useful and timely summary of hurricanes Harvey and Irma for the Geographical Association’s Teaching Geography magazine, which they have kindly let us reproduce here.

Read the article here.