A Record Number of Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters Devastated The US Last Year

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“We’re running out of adjectives trying to describe these extreme events,” a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official said.

And in the latest sign of the worsening climate crisis, new data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service showsworldwide. US scientists will release their own analysis of last year’s temperatures next week.

The most expensive disaster of 2020 was Hurricane Laura, which struck the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm and generated $19 billion in damages, one of seven tropical cyclones that cost the US upwards of $1 billion. Laura also claimed 42 lives, making it the nation’s deadliest storm of the year., the US was spared what could have been even greater storm-related damages because no major storm hit a big city, Smith said.

 

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