Weather and climate affects all these areas : 1. our daily activities 2. our housing 3. tourism 4.

production of electricity 5. food and water supplies 6. loss of lives and property

Weather affects our daily activities. We make decisions to do activities based on the weather.
Good weather allows us to do activities outdoors, like kite-flying and wind-surfing. Bad weather causes us to stop our activities. We have to stay indoors.

Climate influences where people choose to live. People prefer to live in places where it is neither too hot or cold. People usually do not want to live in the Sahara Desert or in Antarctica because of the extreme climates.

Climate affects the type of housing people live in. In tropical countries like Malaysia where it rains a lot, people build houses on stilts above the ground to prevent water from damaging their property during floods.

Different climates around the world attract people to visit different countries. Many tourists travel from USA and Europe during winter to enjoy hot and sunny climate in Singapore.
People in Singapore like to visit Japan and Korea to experience winter as it is always warm in Singapore.

Strong winds can be used to turn vanes of windmills. The vanes are attached to turbines to generate electricity. Wind power is a popular alternative to burning fossil fuels because it is clean and cheap.

Different climate allows different types of crops to grow. Oil palm and rubber are planted in Malaysia and Indonesia where rainfall and temperature is high.
Apples and barley are grown in temperate places such as Europe and the USA.

When there is a drought where there is no rain, rivers dry up and animals die. Crops are destroyed and people suffer because there is food shortage.
E.g. in Sudan, a serious drought caused crops to die, resulting in 500,000 people dying from lack of food.

Long periods of dry weather reduce the water level in rivers and reservoirs. This result in a lack of water supply for people living in the area.
If there is prolonged dry weather, water supply in Singapore will be reduced since we depends on our reservoirs and water supply from Johor.

Extreme weather conditions such as floods, heat waves and hurricanes can destroy many lives and properties.
A heat wave is a prolonged period of excessively hot weather. A hurricane refers to a storm with very strong winds.

Due to a heat wave, the summer of 2003 was one of the hottest in Europe. Crops died of the heat and many people died of heat stroke.
A fierce hurricane named Hurricane Ivan hit Penascola in Florida, in the USA. The winds were very strong, causing buildings to collapse and huge trees to fall.