Nick Geo

 This week we will be discussing Extreme Whether and the effects it has on Afghanistan. First I would like to start out by Identifying where these Extreme Whether cases are most frequent. Places like Kandahar, Helmand, and Nimruz are most frequent to have extreme weather cases. In January, 160 people died due to frigid temperatures and a lack of fuel to supply heat. This was a very unfortunate event that demonstrated the capability of temperature drops in Afghanistan. As well as this, temperatures can rise too very rapidly causing precipitation patterns across Afghanistan to be altered and access to water becomes diminished. The map below shows the average annual temperature in different regions of Afghanistan. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/more-than-160-afghans-die-bitterly-cold-weather-2023-01-26/  https://www.unocha.org/news/afghanistan-alarming-effects-climate-change#:~:text=Rising%20temperatures%20are%20rapidly%20altering,common%20sight%20across%20the%20country. 

 When discussing Afghanistan's mass wasting risks it is very important to look at the droughts that occurred in the country. Not only do these droughts cause people to move away to find more fertile lands, but they also cause landslides and flash floods. There are no real ways to combat a drought but Afghanies have thought of many different  " solutions for problems like floods and landslides are a hybrid combination of natural and built infrastructure,” said Hassan Partow, a Programme Manager at UNEP's Disasters and Conflicts Branch. “They are cost-effective and readily available, which is crucial in a country like Afghanistan.”" These infrastructures could seriously help improve the effects of these landslides and floods. https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/facing-floods-and-landslides-afghans-turn-nature-protection