
11 Minnesota hailstorm severe storms in the Northeast in early August severe storms in Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin in late July mid-July hail and severe storms in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Tennessee and Georgia deadly flooding in the Northeast and Pennsylvania in the second week of July and a late June outbreak of severe storms in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. In addition to Idalia and the Hawaiian firestorm that killed at least 115 people, NOAA newly listed an Aug.
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NOAA added eight new billion-dollar disasters to the list since its last update a month ago. “Exposure plus vulnerability plus climate change is supercharging more of these into billion-dollar disasters,” Smith said. What’s happening reflects a rise in the number of disasters and more areas being built in risk-prone locations, Smith said. NOAA has been tracking billion-dollar weather disasters in the United States since 1980 and adjusts damage costs for inflation.

“I would not expect things to slow down anytime soon.” “We’re seeing the fingerprints of climate change all over our nation,” Smith said in an interview Monday. And NOAA’s count doesn’t yet include Tropical Storm Hilary’s damages in hitting California and a deep drought that has struck the South and Midwest because those costs are still to be totaled, said Adam Smith, the NOAA applied climatologist and economist who tracks the billion-dollar disasters.
