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US Disaster Costs Shatter Records In 2017, the Third-Warmest Year On Record (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Major hurricanes and wildfires fueled a record year for costs related to natural disasters in the United States, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That report also said 2017 was the third-warmest year in 123 years of record keeping, behind only 2014 and 2012. Natural disasters in the United States cost more than $300 million last year, far surpassing the previous record of $214.8 billion set in 2005, NOAA said Monday. NOAA counted 1 drought event, 2 flooding events, 1 freeze event, 8 severe storm events, 3 tropical cyclone events, and 1 wildfire event during the year that bore losses exceeding $1 billion each. There were also 362 deaths. That would tie with 2011 for the largest number of such billion-dollar disasters, the agency said.
Talk to an Australian. They hit just over 40 degrees last weekend... That's 40+ degrees Celsius BTW.
I know, I know, you have no idea what that means, your backyard is cold, therefore it's cold everywhere in the world.
That's 117F. It was new for Sydney.
It was not new for Sydney.
They "forgot" about records for an older weather station. Would go against the message after all.
It is the highest since *1939*. But that means it was that hot almost a hundred years ago...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Except they are not even keeping pace with GDP growth. That kind of changes things, doesn't it?
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
It's hard to point to a single weather event and attribute it to climate change, but it should be obvious that a changing climate also changes the weather.