A Decade of Extremes: The Top-10 Record-Breaking Events of Recent Years
LeComte, Douglas
Every year that goes by seems to bring a new round of record-breaking weather events, many with devastating consequences. Powerful hurricanes that bring large economic and human losses, massive wildfires, floods and droughts, and record-smashing heat waves. We often talk here at Weatherwise about the need to track these events to gauge how our climate is shifting in a warming world. As we enter the next decade of the 21st century, we wanted to take a look back at some of the biggest weather stories in the United States and their impacts. There were, of course, more events than we could include in an article of this size, but there are a few historical events that stand out from the perspective of costs, deaths, injuries, size, and meteorological rarity. Hurricane cost data come from the January 26, 2018, National Hurricane Center's 'Costliest tropical cyclones tables updated.' Additional cost and impact data come from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information's U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (2019).</p>
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