Extreme weather events (and the costs) are piling up

Sept. 15, 2019, 7:35 AM CDT By Dante Chinni WASHINGTON 

There were 93 named storms in the Atlantic in the 1980s. There were 110 named storms in the Atlantic in the 1990s and a whopping 151 in the first decade of this century. The tally sits at 150 for the current decade and we are still at the peak of the 2019 season. The number of major hurricanes, above category 3, is also up since 1980, though down a bit from the last decade (so far).

But the growth of extreme weather extends beyond hurricanes. An analysis of weather disasters that did more than $1 billion in damage from the National Centers for Environmental Information finds that such high-cost events are up markedly since the 1980s. (The dollar figures for the events were adjusted for inflation.)

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