List of extreme weather events worldwide

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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
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
0September 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
0November 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .