List of extreme weather events worldwide
The list of weather events worldwide gives an overview of extreme weather events designated as storms , including natural disasters (damaging events) of historical importance. The names are assigned according to national customs, see Assigning names for weather events . For the European area there is the list of weather events in Europe .
List (selection)
Period | Surname | event | region | Victim | Remarks |
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9th century | hail | Roopkund Lake , Uttarakhard , India | about 600 | The victims' bodies were not found until 2004. | |
1150-1500, 1276-1299 | drought | Southern United States of America | unknown | Anasazi culture is falling apart | |
1816 | Year without summer | Cold anomaly | worldwide | ≈ 90,000 dead | Result of the eruption of the Tambora volcano in what is now Indonesia |
1876-1879 | Drought followed by cold anomaly | North China , e.g. T. India | ≈ 13 million deaths (China), ≈ 1.5 million deaths (India) | ||
January 1888 | Schoolchildren's Blizzard | Blizzard | Great Plains , North America | at least 200 dead | |
March 1888 | Great snow storm of 1888 | Blizzard | USA east coast | ≈ 400 deaths | Snow depths of up to 1.30 m, snow drifts of over 15 m |
September 8, 1900 | Galveston hurricane | hurricane | USA east coast | ≈ 6,000–12,000 dead | |
November 1927 | New England hurricane | hurricane | New England | 1,258 bridges were destroyed on the larger rivers alone | |
1930-1937 | Dust bowl | drought | Great Plains , Southern United States | Almost all farmers in the Midwest went bankrupt , wave of emigration to California | |
October 1959 | Mexico hurricane | hurricane | Mexico | 1,800 dead | |
November 13, 1970 | Cyclone in East Pakistan in 1970 | cyclone | Bay of Bengal | 300,000 dead | |
3rd-9th February 1972 | Blizzard in Iran | Blizzard | Iran | at least 4,000 dead | Snow storm over most of Iran |
August 1975 | Typhoon Nina | typhoon | China | over 100,000 dead | |
23rd December 1975 | direct lightning strike | Manica Province , Zimbabwe | 21 dead | ||
October 1979 | Typhoon tip | typhoon | Japan | 99 dead | Strongest recorded tropical cyclone to date. |
1980 | Heatwave | Southern United States | at least 1,265 dead | in Memphis , Atlanta temperatures up to 42 ° C, New York 38 ° C, in the affected areas 80% of the harvest is destroyed | |
January / February 1985 | Cold wave in North America | Cold anomaly | North America | at least 126 dead | in Utah on February 1, 1985 -56 ° C |
November 2, 1994 | indirect lightning strike | Dronka , Egypt | 469 | A lightning strike sets 3 tank wagons filled with aviation fuel on fire and these are washed into the village of Dronka by a tidal wave. | |
October 2004 | Typhoon Tokage | typhoon | Japan | 99 dead, 704 injured and 4 missing | |
August 2005 | Hurricane Katrina | hurricane | US Gulf Coast | 1,836 dead | Flooding of New Orleans |
January / February 2011 | Groundhog Day Blizzard | Blizzard | northeastern North America | 14 dead | |
August 2011 | Hurricane Irene | hurricane | Caribbean and US East Coast | 56 dead | |
October 2012 | Hurricane Sandy | hurricane | Caribbean | 285 dead | Damage of ≈ $ 75 billion |
February 2013 | Blizzard Nemo | Blizzard | northeastern North America | ≈ 600,000 households without electricity and heating | |
November 2013 | Typhoon Haiyan | typhoon | especially Philippines | 6,340 dead | |
October 2015 | Hurricane Patricia | hurricane | Central America | 6 dead | |
February 2016 | Cyclone Winston | cyclone | South Pacific , Fiji | at least 43 dead | |
29 May 2017 | monsoon | Sri Lanka | 169 dead | ||
August 30, 2017 - September 14, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | hurricane | Caribbean | 37 dead | |
September 2017 | Hurricane Maria | hurricane | Caribbean | at least 3000 dead | over $ 96 billion in damage |
October 2018 | Hurricane Michael | hurricane | USA , Central America | at least 33 dead | u. a. Power outages in over 520,000 homes and businesses |
May 23, 2020 | Amphan super cyclone | cyclone | India, Bangladesh | Min. 100 dead |
See also
- Atlantic hurricane season
- Cyclone season in the North Indian
- Pacific hurricane season
- Pacific typhoon season
- South Pacific cyclone season
- Australian cyclone season
- List of tornadoes
- List of disasters
- List of weather events in Europe
Individual evidence
- ↑ James C. Weyman, Linda J. Anderson-Berry: Societal Impacts of Tropical Cyclones . In: Fifth International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones . 2002 ( full text ).
literature
- Gerald Deckhart, Gesine Froese u. a .: Disasters that shook the world, Verlag Das Beste, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-87070-394-6 .