Tag: climate disasters
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Winter 2025–2026: Back-to-Back Southern Snowstorms and a Surge in Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters
When most people picture January weather across the South—from Houston to Florida—images of sunshine and warmth likely come to mind. Yet the winters of 2025 and 2026 have upended expectations, delivering record-breaking freezes and snow events all the way to the Gulf Coast and deep South. Even more remarkable, these events have coincided with a…
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King Tides Surge in California: When Moon, Sun, and Storms Collide
California is no stranger to meteorological drama, but this year’s turn of the calendar brought some of the most striking coastal flooding in decades — thanks to the phenomenon known as “king tides.” These astronomical high tides, when paired with the relentless parade of severe winter storms, have left communities along the Golden State’s coast…
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Extreme Weather in Late 2025: A Costly Global Wake-Up Call
As 2025 drew to a close, extreme weather battered communities across the globe, resulting in more than $120 billion in economic losses—a stark reminder of our collective vulnerability to intensifying climate and weather hazards[1][4]. Here in the United States, the aftermath of devastating wildfires in California quickly gave way to severe winter storms and brutal…
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