The U.S. had 18 weather disasters in 2022 that caused at least $1 billion in damages, federal climate scientists say. That continues a dramatic upswing in recent years. The total cost in 2022 was more than $165 billion.
pushed last year’s damages to the highest since 2017. The only more expensive years were 2017 — when Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria struck — and the disastrous 2005 when numerous hurricanes, headlined by Katrina, pummeled the Southeast, federal meteorologists said. The only busier years for billion-dollar disasters were 2020 and 2021.Ian was the third costliest U.S. hurricane on record with $112.9 billion in damage, followed by $22.
“The risk of extreme events is growing and they are affecting every corner of the world,” NOAA chief scientist Sarah Kapnick said. “It’s not just one but many, many different types of extremes across much of the country,” Smith said. “If extremes were on a bingo card, we almost filled up the card over the last several years.”
“It was a warm year certainly above average for most of the country but nothing off the charts,” Gleason said. The nation’s average temperature was 53.4 degrees , which is 1.4 degrees warmer than the 20th century average.The year was 1.5 inches below normal for rain and snow, the 27th driest out of 128 years, Gleason said.
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