While hazards like hurricanes and wildfires happen naturally, climate breakdown is making them worse, scientists say
The extreme weather grounded flights, buckled trainlines and fuelled devastating blazes that destroyed homes.
In Europe as a whole the average temperature was the highest on record for both August and summer period by"substantial margins" of 0.8°C for August and 0.4°C for summer, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.2. Europe's drought worst in 500 years, according to preliminary analysis. The parched conditions shrivelled plants and rivers, leaving hordes of dead fish and failed crops.
It has driven people to hunger and the brink of famine, threatening the lives and livelihoods of 36 million people., the World Food Programme warned in August, as the country teetered on the edge of the world's first climate change-induced famine.
"This year's fire season was very intense in terms of burnt areas, but especially so in terms of [the] number of fires and fire danger levels," Dr Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz, from the European Commission's Disaster Risk Management Unit, told Sky News.
Swiss Re Institute predicts it to be the second-costliest insured loss ever after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, more than 2012's Superstorm Sandy that swamped New York and New Jersey.Homes are surrounded by floodwaters in Sohbat Pur city, a district of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, Pic: APFrom mid-June to late August large areas of Pakistan suffered record-breaking monsoonal rainfall.
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