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This category includes historic weather events which have occurred in China. This category includes floods caused by rain, but not floods caused simply by dam failures. For non-weather related events, see Category:Disasters in China
Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, severe, or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Extreme events are based on a location's recorded weather history.
Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high. [13] Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 ...
Name; area Deaths Causes Great Chinese Famine of 1958–62 [6]15–55 million Great Leap Forward economic failure. The starved could not move out because all out-of-town traffic were guarded by militia to contain the news of starvation.
China is a mountainous country, which leads to rapid dissipation of cyclones that move inland as well as significant amounts of rain from those dissipating cyclones. Typhoon Nina in 1975 caused the collapse of two huge reservoirs and ten smaller dams when 1062 mm (41.81 inches) of rain fell in Henan Province during a 24‑hour period.
K. Typhoon Kaemi (2006) Typhoon Kai-tak (2000) Typhoon Kai-tak (2012) Typhoon Kalmaegi (2008) Typhoon Kalmaegi (2014) Tropical Storm Kammuri (2002) Tropical Storm Kammuri (2008)
China Earthquake August 25 1934 10,700–12,000 1934 Nepal–India earthquake: Nepal, India January 15 1935 145,000 1935 Yangtze flood: China Flood July 6 1936 5,000+ 1936 North American heat wave: United States, Canada Heat wave June – September 1937 11,021 1937 Great Hong Kong typhoon: China Tropical cyclone September 2 1938 715+ 1938 ...