[OKDXA] Dr Ping

[Dan Woods]

Very interesting.....
Thanks for the information
Dan
W5BM

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From: okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Kimberly Elmore
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:22 PM
To: Oklahoma - DX news and information
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] Dr Ping

It certainly exceeds the costs associated with tornadoes, and probably
everything else. It varies by year, but over a long term, winter weather is
by far the most expensive. The nature of the cost is different than severe
convective weather, though. The cost comes from lost productivity, road
maintenance requirements such as sanding, salting and plowing, road damage
that has to be repaired later, power failure costs, utility costs to repair
damaged infrastructure, airline costs for delays and cancellations, etc. The
list is long if you include all of the weather-related costs. Of course,
severe convective weather generates the same sorts of costs to airlines and
utilities, and generates different losses, such as flooding but it's more
localized in both time and space. Winter weather does its dastardly deed by
doing over such a large area.

In terms of
fatalities, http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap03/nat_hazard.html
has some interesting statistics. Heat waves are the biggest killer in the
US, followed by winter weather and cold. After that we have floods and next
comes lightning. Tornadoes rate 6th, behind other wind-related deaths. I've
seen later studies that show similar statistics. 

73,

Kim N5OP



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From: "K8fu at aol.com" <K8fu at aol.com>
To: okdxa at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 10:53:04 AM
Subject: [OKDXA] Dr Ping

Well done indeed Kim. But I  have a question. You stated that winter weather
events are the most costly  weather event. Does that mean that the total 

monetary total of  winter weather events exceeds that of the summer tornadic
events  ??
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