This summer of 2023 is an "extreme summer" for the United States across the ocean, with wildfires, heat, smoke, floods, tornadoes, and billions of dollars in disaster economic damage in the United States since records began, not counting the recent Hawaiian wildfires.
Since the beginning of August, droughts, floods, severe storms and wildfires in Hawaii have killed more than 100 people and more than 1,000 are still missing, and the total cost of these events so far this year has exceeded $39.7 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The $1 billion disaster in 2023 includes one flood event, 13 severe storms, and one winter storm, in chronological order:
January-March – California floods
February, February — Northeast winter storm
March, March – Severe weather in the south and east (2 times)
April, March to April – Central tornado outbreak
May, April – Bad weather in central China
June, April – Bad weather in the south
July and April – Severe weather in central and eastern China
August and April – Bad weather in the central and southern regions
September, May – Hailstorm in Texas
October, May – Bad weather in central China
November, June – Severe weather in the central and southern regions
December and June – Severe weather in the south
Scientists warn that many extreme weather events are driven by climate change and are likely to only increase in the future.
Environmental issues are urgent.