'Every year that goes by seems to bring a new round of record-breaking weather events, many with devastating consequences,' researcher Douglas Le Comte said.
about the need to track these events to gauge how our climate is shifting in a warming world," he wrote."As we enter the next decade of the 21st century, we wanted to take a look back at some of the biggest weather stories in the United States and their impacts."
Other factors which contributed to Harvey's top ranking on the list were the fact that the storm directly caused at least 68 deaths. It also had a huge economic cost totalling around $125 billion, making it the second costliest on record after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The top five on the ranking is completed by Hurricane Irma which struck the U.S. Virgin Islands and Florida in September 2017; and the intense drought that affected the Corn Belt between June and August, 2012.
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