The country experienced 18 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2022. theSun theSundaily ExtremeWeather US damage
: Major hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, drought and a fierce winter storm caused more than $165 billion in damage in the United States last year with climate change “supercharging” some extreme weather, a US government report said Tuesday.
The increasing number of extreme events “hints that the extremely high activity of recent years is becoming the new normal,“ the NCEI said. The billion-dollar events accounted for about 85 percent of the total damage from all recorded US weather and climate events in 2022, it said. Other weather and climate disasters included wildfires in the western US and Alaska, flooding in Missouri and Kentucky, tornadoes across the southern and southeastern US and the December winter storm.
“Climate change is also supercharging the increasing frequency and intensity of certain types of extreme weather that lead to billion-dollar disasters,“ it said. In a recent report, the UK-based charity Christian Aid also listed Hurricane Ian as the most costly weather event in a year that also saw devastating floods in Australia, parts of Africa, China and Pakistan and a severe summer heatwave and drought in Europe.
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