Extreme Events

Satellite view of hurricane Hugo in 1989

Extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, tornadoes, and hurricanes have affected the United States since the dawn of time. NCDC provides a variety of information detailing these events categorized by type of event.

• U.S. Records
  This tool lists and maps records tied or broken on a given date for weather stations across the 50 United States. Records are distinguished as daily (largest/smallest for that day on the calendar), monthly (largest/smallest value during that month), or all-time (largest/smallest value ever observed at that station). Summary information for recent periods (year-to-date, month-to-date, last 30 days) is provided in tabular format.
• Climate Extremes Index
  This index charts the occurrence of specific extreme events over time since 1910. In most cases, extreme events are defined as lying in the outermost (“most unusual”) 10 percent of a place’s history. Analyses are available at the national and regional levels.
• U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters
  The U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters report provides readers with an aggregated loss perspective for major U.S. weather and climate events from 1980 to the present. This report provides information on direct economic losses, deaths, and other impacts for numerous weather and climate disasters including tropical cyclones, floods, droughts and heat waves, severe storms (e.g., tornadoes, hail, and straight-line winds), wildfires, crop freeze events, and winter storms. In addition to the report, interactive tools are available to better visualize the data including maps, time series, and statistical tables on the distribution of damage from these extreme events.https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6565483752503740244#editor/target=post;postID=3871077469176546094