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A dust storm swept the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles on the afternoon of 14 April 1935, displacing an estimated 300,000 tons of topsoil. It reached Beaver around 4 p.m., Boise City at 5:15 and Amarillo at 7:20.

The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded drove a storm surge over the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta. At least 300,000 died, and the Pakistani government's response helped set off the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Europe had its hottest summer since at least 1540, with night temperatures staying above 30C and eight consecutive days over 40C in Auxerre. The death toll has been estimated at more than 70,000.

Katrina came ashore near Buras-Triumph at 11:10 UTC as a high-end Category 3 hurricane with 125 mph winds. Flooding from failures in the federally built levee system put 80% of New Orleans under water.

A Ms 8.0 (Mw 7.9) earthquake hit Sichuan at 14:28 on 12 May 2008, leaving more than 69,000 dead, about 18,000 missing and at least 4.8 million homeless.

Typhoon Morakot hit central Taiwan on 7 August 2009 and stalled over the island, dropping up to 2,777 mm of rain, killing 755 people and wiping out the town of Siaolin in a landslide.

The volcano's second eruptive phase threw ash into the jet stream and about 20 countries shut their airspace to commercial jets. Roughly 10 million travellers were stranded in the worst air-travel disruption since the Second World War.

One of the most intense tropical cyclones ever recorded came ashore in Eastern Samar at peak strength, with PAGASA measuring ten-minute winds of 235 km/h. At least 6,300 died in the Visayas alone.

Over ten thousand fires burnt mainly across south-eastern Australia after an exceptionally dry year, in one of the most catastrophic fire seasons on record. Fires started early, from June 2019 in Central Queensland.

Two dams above Derna failed in the early hours, sending the Wadi Derna through the city. Over 5,900 died and at least 8,000 more were missing in the deadliest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone on record.

Reported at about 10:30 a.m. in the Santa Monica Mountains during a Santa Ana windstorm, the fire burned 23,448 acres through Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu, destroyed 6,845 structures and killed 12 people.

Starting at about 6:18 p.m. below Edison transmission towers in Eaton Canyon, the wind-driven fire swept into Altadena, burning 14,021 acres, destroying 9,419 structures and killing 19 people.

On 10 January 2025 Copernicus reported 2024 as the warmest year on record at 15.10C, 0.12C above 2023 and 1.60C above pre-industrial, the first calendar year over 1.5C; WMO put it at about 1.55C.

A wind-driven wildfire in the Otay Mountain Wilderness near the Mexican border forced evacuations around Otay Lakes Road and threatened the mountain’s communications site before crews contained it a week later.

Logan Airport reached 102 degrees on 24 June 2025, beating Boston's 100-degree June record from 2021, 1952 and 1925, with a heat index near 110. It fell just 2 degrees short of the city's all-time high of 104, set on 4 July 1911.

On 23 September 2025 heavy rain from Super Typhoon Ragasa made the landslide-dammed Matai'an Creek barrier lake overflow, sweeping a wall of mud and water into Guangfu township in Hualien and killing at least 18 people.

1.85 inches of rain fell in Central Park, breaking a daily record from 1917, as flash floods swamped streets and subway stations; two men died in flooded basements in Crown Heights and Washington Heights.

The Blizzard of 2026 dropped 17.1 inches on Logan Airport on 23 February 2026 and more than three feet on parts of southeastern Massachusetts, with a 68 mph gust at Logan and Boston's first blizzard warning since January 2022.

From 18 March 2026 Harry Reid International Airport set daily heat records 12 days running, broke the all-time March high of 93°F five times and peaked at 98°F on 25 March, in a month that averaged 73°F, 12.2°F above normal, with no rain.

The opening night of Bruno Mars' five-show Toronto stand, the most any artist has booked at Rogers Stadium on one tour, was called off for bad weather on 23 May and moved to 31 May.

WMO expects the established El Niño to strengthen in the coming months and persist through February 2027, with increased risks of floods, drought and extreme heat. Its September–November outlook already anticipates rainfall and temperature patterns associated with strong El Niño.

Copernicus announced on 10 September 2026 that August 2026 averaged 16.96C worldwide, 1.65C above pre-industrial levels and level with July 2023 (16.95C) as the warmest calendar month ever recorded. It also beat the old August record of 16.82C.

Three days of exceptionally heavy rain from 25 to 27 September 2026 left at least 56 dead in Uttar Pradesh and 12 in Nepal, a month after a flood that killed over 1,400 in Nepal.

NOAA forecasts an 83% chance of a historic El Niño during October–December 2026, with a three-month relative ocean temperature index of at least +2.5 °C. Strong-to-very strong conditions are likely to continue through January–March 2027.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivers the first special report devoted to climate change and cities, due in March 2027. It is one of three special and methodology reports in the AR7 cycle.

The National Hurricane Center's official Atlantic season runs from 1 June to 30 November, the six months in which almost all basin activity falls. An average season brings 14 named storms.

The Bureau of Meteorology's official tropical cyclone season for the Australian region runs from 1 November to 30 April. An average season brings 10 cyclones, three or four of which cross the coast.