A new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says damage from weather disasters totaled more than $165 billion in 2022.
Climatologist Brian Fuchs with the National Drought Mitigation Center says drought was a big story. “But, we also had some severe weather outbreaks in the Central Plains and some hail events that were significant enough with property and agricultural losses associated with them.”
The NOAA found 18 events caused more than $1 billion dollars in damage and Fuchs says that’s due to an increase in weather extremes.
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