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Jan 11, 2022 · One result: the most expensive winter weather disaster in U.S. history (previous record: $10.1 billion in 2021 dollars from the 1993 “Storm of the Century” in the eastern U.S.). Globally, the only costlier winter weather disaster was a $26 billion event in 2008 in China.
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The wet weather continued into October, when at the end of the month rainfall records were smashed all over California. Downtown San Francisco, downtown Sacramento, Los Angeles International Airport and a number of hilly or mountainous areas saw unprecedented rain counts, with some areas receiving more than 26.4cm (10.4ins). Experts said the storm ...
In Australia, the area around Ayers Rock/Uluru saw its wettest November ever as more than 100mm of rain fell in Alice Springs. Large parts of Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria were under a flood warning dueto an "explosion of rain", with some towns seeing up to 46mm (1.8ins) of rain in 30 minutes, at the same time as othe...
Records continued to be broken into December. Honolulu airport saw a never-seen-before 201mm (7.92ins) of rain on the 6th and Patagonia had a heatwave, with temperatures reaching 37.3C (99.1F) in the northern Patagonian area of El Bolson, in the Andean foothills, on the 7th. Then, acting perhaps as a portent of what was to come, exceptional unseaso...
Aug 31, 2021 · Recent projections for more than 7,000 coastal locations around the world suggest that at 1.5 degrees of warming, at least half of the sites studied will be annually affected by extreme sea level events. At 2 degrees Celsius of warming, a further 14 percent will experience the same by 2100.
Weather events, linked to a changing climate, brought misery to millions around the world in 2021 according to a new report. The study, from the charity Christian Aid, identified 10 extreme...
The February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm was a crippling, large and major winter and ice storm that had widespread impacts across the United States, Northern Mexico, and parts of Canada from February 13 to 17, 2021.
Rainfall patterns in the UK vary by region and season and will continue to do so in the future. The latest set of UK climate projections (UKCP18) provide the most up-to-date assessment of how the...
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Aug 9, 2021 · The report provides new estimates of the chances of crossing the global warming level of 1.5°C in the next decades, and finds that unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C will be beyond reach.
