word | | Natural hazards |
| floods | United Kingdom | winter windstorms; floods |
| floods | Uruguay | ... pampero is a chilly and occasional violent wind that blows north from the Argentine pampas), droughts, floods; because of the absence of mountains, which act as weather barriers, all locations are particularly ... |
| floods | Venezuela | subject to floods, rockslides, mudslides; periodic droughts |
| floods | Virgin Islands | several hurricanes in recent years; frequent and severe droughts and floods; occasional earthquakes |
| floods | Zimbabwe | recurring droughts; floods and severe storms are rare |
| floored | Southern Ocean | ... with sometimes dynamic short-term variations and with large annual and interannual variations; deep continental shelf floored by glacial deposits varying widely over short distances; high winds and large waves much of ... |
| fog | Atlantic Ocean | ... and the Madeira Islands; ships subject to superstructure icing in extreme northern Atlantic from October to May; persistent fog can be a maritime hazard from May to September; hurricanes (May to December |
| fog | Pacific Ocean | ... Hemisphere and the western Pacific; ships subject to superstructure icing in extreme north from October to May; persistent fog in the northern Pacific can be a maritime hazard from June to December |
| fog | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | persistent fog throughout the year can be a maritime hazard |
| followed | Korea, North | late spring droughts often followed by severe flooding; occasional typhoons during the early fall |
| Fonuafo | Tonga | cyclones (October to April); earthquakes and volcanic activity on Fonuafo'ou |
| foot | Antarctica | katabatic (gravity-driven) winds blow coastward from the high interior; frequent blizzards form near the foot of the plateau; cyclonic storms form over the ocean and move clockwise along the coast; volcanism ... |
| forest | Australia | cyclones along the coast; severe droughts; forest fires |
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