Florida Storms Could Cost $1 Billion.
Early this year, an estimate showed that 376 weather events had caused $1 billion in damage since 1980. The forecast for 2023 was 28. Although it will take several months to get the final figures, there have probably been several storms in the US. Indeed, massive rain storms that hit some of the most populated areas of the West Coast will qualify.
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According to Bloomberg, recent storms and several forecasts could cause $1 billion in damage in parts of Florida this month. The news service reported, “Large swaths of South Florida were underwater this week after the sky turned into a firehose that flooded Miami and dumped 10 inches of rain on Fort Lauderdale in a day. It was the worst rainstorm in Fort Lauderdale … since the one in April 2023 that dumped more than 2 feet of rain in a day.”
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Many scientists believe that storms have been brought on by climate change, which has warmed the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Water temperatures off Key West have been measured above $100 degrees F.
The most recent storms are not hurricanes, which makes the weather activity all the more alarming. Usually, the $1 billion storms and destructive power are due to the most powerful hurricanes like Ida, which battered Florida’s west coast last year. What is almost the worst of the hurricane season is yet to come, and several forecasting services say it could be among the worst in history.
As for the future of the $1 billion storms, the count will most likely get higher most years.
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