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The weather of 2012 marked the fewest fatalities from natural disasters in a decade, although there were several damaging and deadly floods, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, and other weather events. These include blizzards , cold waves , droughts, heat waves , and wildfires .
Progression of a well-anticipated high risk event across the Central Plains on April 14, 2012. This event ultimately produced 85 tornadoes that day, one of which killed six people. A high risk severe weather event is the greatest threat level issued by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for convective weather events in the United States. On the ...
The system turned northwestward late on August 25 and continued in that direction until August 27. Despite the presence of vertical wind shear, convection became more concentrated. The circulation became better-defined, indicating that Tropical Depression Eleven developed at 1800 UTC on August 28, while located about 1,290 miles (2,080 km ...
On June 25, 2012, Denver, Colorado, tied its all-time high with a temperature of 105 °F (40.6 °C). On the same day a couple of 113 °F (45 °C) readings were recorded in Kansas. The heat was so strong that Alamosa, Colorado, broke its daily record for six consecutive days.
Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth, according to data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.. The average global temperature reached 17.09 degrees Celsius ...
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August 25. 0000 UTC - JMA and JTWC downgrades Tembin to a tropical storm, due to minor land reaction with Taiwan. [61] 1800 UTC - Bolaven slowly weakens as it passes through the island of Okinawa. [62] [63] [64] - In that same time, Tembin entered the south China sea and both agencies upgraded Tembin to a typhoon again. August 26
The passage of Hurricane Isaac generated a long-lived, nine-day tornado outbreak that affected the Central and Eastern United States from August 27 to September 4, 2012. The hurricane produced a total of 34 tornadoes, with the strongest being two EF2 tornadoes in Mississippi and Arkansas.