Typhoons, cyclones, floods and drought – not just weather disturbances but responsible for widespread mayhem and large scale catastrophes in the world. These severe weather conditions that have hit Earth since April this year have unfortunately resulted in billion–dollar weather–related disasters till now engulfing Australia, USA, UK, China and Brazil.
A flood disaster in the U.S. that swamped Detroit, Baltimore, and Long Island and the severe weather outbreaks in April and June in the U.S. brought the global number of billion-dollar weather disasters for the first eight months of 2014 to seventeen. This is well behind the record-setting pace of 2013, which had 28 billion-dollar weather disasters by the end of August, and ended up with a record 41 by the end of the year.
Typhoon Rammasun, the strongest typhoon to hit southern China in more than 40 years had killed more than 200 people in July. While the snowstorm to Japan in February paralyzed japan, killing almost 100 people. Moreover, both the incidents were disastrous, leaving damages amounting to be above $ 6 billion.
Flooding in China and UK together killed more than 100 people and both were disaster costing $1.2 billion.
Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters 2014
| Disaster | Date | Cost | Deaths |
| Typhoon Rammasun, China | 15 – 20th July | $ 6.5 billion | 206 |
| Winter Weather, Japan | 8-16th Feb | $ 6.25 billion | 95 |
| Flooding, Serbia | 13-21st May | $ 4.5 billion | 80 |
| Drought, Brazil | 30th April | $ 4.3 billion | 0 |
| Flooding , U.K. | 1st March | $ 1.5 billion | 0 |
| Cyclone ITA, Australia | 10-14th April | $ 1 billion | 0 |
