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Dec 22, 2020 · Hurricane Zeta was the sixth hurricane to hit the U.S. this year, tying 1886 and 1985 for the most continental U.S. hurricane landfalls in a single season. Zeta was the record fifth named storm to ...
1930s. September 28–October 1, 1932 –A hurricane traversed most of the Gulf of California, spreading rainfall across California over four days. Tehachapi recorded 7.11 in (181 mm) of rainfall, of which more than half was recorded over a seven hour period. The rains produced flash flooding that killed 15 people.
- 2020 costs in historical context. The billion-dollar disaster events during 2020 caused $95.0 billion in damages (red line below), which is the fourth-highest inflation-adjusted annual cost total since 1980, and more than double the 41-year average of $45.7 billion.
- Increasing trend of high-cost disasters. The number and cost of weather and climate disasters are increasing in the United States due to a combination of increased exposure (i.e., more assets at risk), vulnerability (i.e., how much damage a hazard of given intensity—wind speed, or flood depth, for example—causes at a location), and the fact that climate change is increasing the frequency of some types of extremes that lead to billion-dollar disasters (NCA 2018, Chapter 2).
- Historic U.S. billion-dollar disasters of 2020. Among the many weather and climate-related disasters to affect the U.S. in 2020, the following caused the most damaging impacts and broke numerous records.
- Distribution of costs and fatalities by disaster type. The distribution of damage from U.S. billion-dollar disaster events from 1980 to 2020 is dominated by tropical cyclone losses.
California Summary. From 1980–2024 (as of November 1, 2024), there have been 46 confirmed weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each to affect California. These events included 14 drought events, 6 flooding events, 3 freeze events, 4 severe storm events, and 19 wildfire events.
Nov 18, 2020 · The 2020 hurricane season has been uniquely awful. There have been 30 named storms so far - a new record. And six of those storms have been devastating, major hurricanes, including Hurricane Iota ...
Nov 16, 2020 · Published Nov. 16, 2020 Updated Sept. 29, 2021. The 2020 hurricane season, which brought destructive storms from Central America to the Gulf Coast of the United States and beyond, has proved to be ...
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Aug 17, 2023 · Tropical cyclone tracks approaching southern California since 1949. Later in 1978, Hurricane Norman made landfall on San Clementine Island, also as a tropical depression, before tracking over Long ...
