5 Deadliest and Most Destructive Natural Disasters in History

Every year, close to 100,000 people lose their lives in natural disasters – wildfires, drought, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and tsunamis, while more than 150 million are impacted by them, all over the world, according to the World Health Organization. Aggressive natural disasters have been a fact of human life since the beginning of humankind, but the death counts of the earliest of these disasters are lost to history. Here are the top 5 most destructive natural disaster in history…

Hurricane Season (The Atlantic) Officially Begins Tuesday – Here’s What Is Typical in June and July

Hurricane season officially begins Tuesday, June 1, and while it’s expected to be another active year, the early part of the season has historically been slow.

The National Hurricane Center selected the June 1 to Nov. 30 period for the Atlantic hurricane season because it encompasses more than 97% of tropical cyclones. But storms can occasionally form before or after those dates, as we saw this May with the brief development of Tropical Storm Ana east of Bermuda.

Early in the season, we typically do not look at the main development region of the central and eastern Atlantic for tropical storms or hurricanes. We look closer to home…