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A Category 4 hurricane drove a storm surge of over 15 ft across Galveston Island, killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people. It remains the deadliest natural disaster in United States history.

Months of flooding along the Yangtze and Huai rivers inundated Wuhan, Nanjing and beyond, culminating in a dike breach at Lake Gaoyou on 25 August. Estimates of the dead run from 150,000 drowned to two million in total.

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.

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.

Amazon pledges $20 million and launches the Colorado River Basin Collaborative, a corporate coalition with Aldi, The Coca-Cola Foundation, Ecolab and others that aims to raise $100 million for water projects across the basin in two years.

The 31st UN climate conference runs 9-20 November 2026 at the Antalya Expo Center, hosted by Türkiye, with about 100,000 participants expected.

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.

The 32nd UN climate conference is held in Addis Ababa in November 2027, the first COP in sub-Saharan Africa in sixteen years, with the African Group holding the presidency.