Hurricane Harvey is a billion-dollar disaster – America's 10th in 2017
by Joanna Walters from Environment | The Guardian on (#30YK3)
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Even before Hurricane Harvey began to form, out in the north Atlantic, federal climate experts signalled that 2017 was going to be a bad year for weather and climate catastrophes in America. According to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), there had already been nine climate and weather-related events that caused more than $1bn of damage.
Related: A timeline of the billion-dollar weather disasters in the US over the past decade
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