Adverse Weather

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-000616",
  "term": "Adverse Weather",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Weather conditions that make it difficult for response equipment and personnel to clean up or remove spilled oil, and that must be considered when identifying response systems and equipment in a response plan for the applicable operating environment. Factors to consider include significant wave height as specified in appendix E to this part (as appropriate), ice conditions, temperatures, weather-related visibility, and currents within the area in which the systems or equipment is intended to function.\n\n2. A weather event that is rare at a particular place and time of year, including, for example, heat waves, cold waves, heavy rains, periods of drought and flooding, and severe storms.\n\n3. Weather conditions that make it difficult for response equipment and personnel to clean up or respond to discharged CWA hazardous substances, accounting for impacts due to climate change, such as the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, temperature fluctuations, rising seas, storm surges, inland and coastal flooding, drought, wildfires, and permafrost melt in northern areas and that must be considered when identifying response systems and equipment in a response plan for the applicable operating environment.",
  "references": [
    "40 CFR 112.2 (CFR 2013)",
    "EPA EV-Natural Environments-Atmosphere",
    "40 CFR 118 (CFR 2024)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/adverse-weather/"
}