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A Swarm of 31 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Socked the Planet in 2016

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Earth had a tough year for billion-dollar weather-related natural disasters in 2016, with 31. This is the fourth-largest number on record going back to 1990, said insurance broker Aon Benfield in their Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report issued January 17 (updated January 23 to include a 31st billion-dollar disaster, the Gatlinburg, Tennessee fire.) The average from 1990 - 2016 was 22 billion-dollar weather disasters; the highest number since 1990 was 41, ...<br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3543">Read More</a>
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