State of the Climate - Global Hazards

The State of the Climate is a collection of periodic summaries recapping climate-related occurrences on both a global and national scale. The State of the Climate Monthly Overview - Global Hazards highlights significant weather-related hazards and disasters across the world. The reports focus on the following events: drought and wildfire, excessive temperatures, flooding, severe storms, tropical cyclones, extratropical cyclones, severe winter weather, polar events and sea ice, and ecosystem impacts. The information provided is a compilation of media news and other reports accompanied by relevant images, graphs, and documents. Material provided in this report is chosen subjectively and included at the discretion of the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The ability to report on a given event is limited by the amount of information available to NCDC at the time of publication. Inclusion of a particular event does not constitute a greater importance in comparison with an event that has not been incorporated into the discussion. Following a summer season summary and an annual report issued in 1998, the Global Hazards report was issued monthly (from 1999) until the final report issued in March 2013. All previously issued reports will be maintained online.