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It started with a bang at 3 a.m. Monday as the residents of Derna were sleeping. One dam burst, then a second, sending a huge wave of water gushing down through the mountains towards the coastal ...
There were 28 climate and weather disasters that cost at least $1bn in 2023, NOAA reported on Tuesday (NOAA) US wildfires in 2023 were roughly on par with the 10-year average, NOAA said, with more ...
On August 22, a fire started in Beauregard Parish, before spreading to numerous areas of the Parish. [20] Power outages occurred in Singer, Louisiana, and a main water line north of Singer burned due to the fires, forcing the Beauregard Parish Police Jury to shut off water from the connecting water lines, including water lines to Merryville.
In December 2023, an atmospheric river caused flooding in the Pacific Northwest. [1] Rainfall and temperature records were set in the U.S. state of Washington. [2] Two deaths have been attributed to this flood. [3] One person died in Portland. [4]
And two dozen billion-dollar extreme weather disasters have already occurred in the US in 2024, CNN previously reported, a number that is straining FEMA’s disaster relief funding.
List of tornadoes in the tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023; List of United States tornadoes from April to May 2023; List of United States tornadoes from January to February 2023; List of United States tornadoes from July to August 2023; List of United States tornadoes in March 2023; List of United States tornadoes from September to ...
“In the 1980s there were about 3 months between billion-dollar disaster events, but over the last decade we are experiencing them every 3 weeks,” Smith told CNN in an email.
In a period of three days on September 1–3, 2023, flooding occurred as part of a seasonal monsoon season across portions of the Southwestern United States, including California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and the Las Vegas Valley. Muddy terrain during the Burning Man festival stranded more than 70,000 people. [2]