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NOAA: Ian, drought supercharged US weather extremes in 2022

FILE - A person walks on the street as a winter storm rolls through Dec. 24, 2022, in Amherst N.Y. Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165 billion, federal climate scientists calculated Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. A pre-Christmas winter storm is one of 18 billion-dollar-disasters in the last year that pushed damages to the highest since 2017. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes, File) FILE - Smoke from the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire drifts over Las Vegas, N.M., on May 7, 2022. Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165 billion, federal climate scientists calculated Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (Robert Browman/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File) FILE - A man stands near a pile of debris as residents start to clean up and rebuild in Fleming-Neon, Ky., Aug. 5, 2022, after massive flooding the previous week. Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165 billion, federal climate scientists calculated Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File) FILE - A man helps two people walk through flood water after their car got stuck on Vandeventer Avenue underneath Interstate-64 in St. Louis, Mo., July 28, 2022. Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165 billion, federal climate scientists calculated Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (Allie Schallert/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File) FILE - Debris surrounds damaged homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, Sept. 29, 2022, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165 billion, federal climate scientists calculated Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) FILE - A firefighter runs to extinguish flames as the Oak Fire crosses Darrah Road in Mariposa County, Calif., on July 22, 2022. Crews were able to to stop it from reaching an adjacent home. Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165 billion, federal climate scientists calculated Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) FILE - Kathy Hickey, 70, carefully picks her way through debris from destroyed trailers in the mobile home park where she and her husband Bruce had a winter home on San Carlos Island in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Oct. 5, 2022, one week after the passage of Hurricane Ian. Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165 billion, federal climate scientists calculated Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File) FILE - A man walks by a formerly sunken boat standing upright into the air with its stern buried in the mud along the shoreline of Lake Mead amid a drought at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Boulder City, Nev., June 22, 2022. Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165 billion, federal climate scientists calculated Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
NOAA: Ian, drought supercharged US weather extremes in 2022