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Extreme weather condition is weather phenomena indicative of an unstable climate; that is, weather that is at a extremes of historical system, especially severe or unseasonal weather.

A combination of extreme weather condition & high population density has led to dramatic upwind catastrophes.

2005
January: Storm winds sweep through northern Europe, leaving at least Thirteen population dead & hundreds to thousands while forgoing electricity. [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/01/09/europe.storm/index.html (CNN)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4158809.stm (BBC)] August: Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida, then again on top New Orleans, LA, flooding over Eighty percent of the city & forcing it's compulsory evacuation. A storm has soh far been credited by owning killing on top 1,000 population inside Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama, and stimulating about 200 billion U.S. dollars inside redress. September: Hurricane Rita and Ophelia covers most of what Katrina already had to. Nevertheless, Rita is category Three prior to it might email a already devastated regions. October: Torrential rain from either Hurricane Stan combines with existing deforestation to trigger mudslides in the highlands of Guatemala killing hundreds of people, primarily within remote Maya villages.

2004
February: The severe blizzard hits Nova Scotia, leaving at least Nina from carolina population dead, sustaining winds of Fourscore km/h+, leaving a entire province while forgoing power for Xvi hours eastern standard time. August: Hurricane Charley makes landfall in Sw Florida, killing 13. September:Hurricane Frances makes landfall in Florida. Hurricane Ivan landed near Gulf Shores, Alabama, near the Florida Panhandle. Hurricane Jeanne makes landfall in central Florida & kills 3,00Around Haiti December: An additional major Blizzard hits Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Southern New Brunswick, leaving assibilate Ace.Five million population while forgoing electricity(for estimatedly Nineteen hours), & complete One c dead.

2003
August: The heat wave involving temperatures when high as 42 degrees Celsius (108 degrees Fahrenheit) struck Europe. Because summertime temperatures, around good deal of northern Europe, seldom exceed Xxx °C (86 °F), a region was unwary for the disaster. A demise toll of the heat wave has been approximated to exceed 10,000. Watch: European Heat Wave of 2003 September: Hurricane Isabel makes landfall on the United States, killing at least 40 population.

2002
September: In September 19, about 1-tierce of the Maili glacier broke off from either a Caucasus Mountains and buried Karmadon, Russia under up to Five hundred feet (150 m) of ice & detritus, killing 125, including a immature Russian movie star Sergei Bodrov Jr. On a nighttime of September 8 a flash flood struck the Scottish city of Inverness, flooding parts of the city to the depth of Two metres. August: At least 109 come flushed by floods from either torrential rains around Europe, including a Malse, Blanice, and Vltava rivers of the Czech Republic, the Black Sea resort village of Shirokaya Balka near Novorossiisk in Russia (58 deaths), Germany (the Elbe and Pleisse), and Romania. A pelter use as well driven extensive damage within Austria (the Rodl and Danube), Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, and Spain. Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla declared a state of emergency within Prague, Bohemia, Plzen and Karlovy Vary. A Elbe reached record heights around Dresden, flooding much of the city. Tons transport on the Danube had to be halted. Premier Silvio Berlusconi approved $50 million inside emergency help within response to the $300 million in damage of northern Italy's crops. About 2000 population come flushed by floods & landslides inside Asia when you took its monsoon year.

2001

2000
January: floods flushed Xii & left hundreds to thousands homeless within Brazil 15 inches (380 millimetre) of snow fell within Israel, the virtually all around L years February: a worst avalanches within decades prompted the governor of Alaska to declare a state of emergency floods flushed Eleven & left 20,000 homeless in the Philippines a year of floods inside Southern Africa, particularly Mozambique, kill 400 & dislodge 250,000 October/November: England experiences the united states's worst swollen decades when the prolonged period of heavily rain. A historic city of York and the towns of Shrewsbury, Lewes and Uckfield are among the worst hit areas. As much as 10,000 homes & businesses come affected.

1999
Record drought around the Northeast & Mid-Atlantic states led to declarations of emergency in half a dozen states. Summer: the prolonged heat wave flushed 271 humans in the Midwest & Northeast. Fall: Hurricane Floyd caused billions of dollars of damages within North Carolina November: the extr-cyclone within Orissa, India, killed 10,000 people December: torrential rains & mudslides inside Venezuela killed 15,000 people hurricane-force windstorms inside Northern Europe caused all over $10 billion inside redress & flushed 91 population in France alone

1998
January: an silver storm inside northern New England and Quebec left 4 million population forgoing power, occasionally for as much as the month Spring: fires inside Brazil, Mexico rainforests, and Florida Summer: extreme heat waves within Texas, Florida, the Middle East, and India killed more than 4,000 people The worst drought around Seventy years was followed by extreme floods witharound September in Mexico September: floods left 14 million population homeless around China October: floods left 30 million humans homeless within Bangladesh October-November: Hurricane Mitch killed more than 18,000 population inside Central America

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