"text":"In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed the city's levees and flooded roughly 80% of New Orleans, one of the deadliest and costliest disasters in U.S. history.",
"text":"In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey stalled over the region and dropped more than 50 inches of rain — a record for a U.S. tropical cyclone — causing catastrophic flooding across Houston.",
"text":"A brutal heat wave in July 1995 pushed the heat index past 120°F and caused an estimated 700 heat-related deaths in Chicago, reshaping how the city prepares for extreme heat.",
"text":"In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy drove a record storm surge into New York City, flooding subway tunnels and much of Lower Manhattan and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands.",
"text":"In August 1992, Category 5 Hurricane Andrew devastated the Miami metropolitan area just south of the city, destroying tens of thousands of homes around Homestead.",
"text":"The Blizzard of 1978 paralyzed Boston for a week, dropping about 27 inches of snow, stranding thousands of motorists, and flooding coastal neighborhoods.",
"text":"During the June 2021 Western North America heat wave, Seattle hit an all-time record 108°F — a temperature the normally mild city had never before approached.",
"text":"In July 2023, Phoenix endured a record 31 straight days at or above 110°F during one of the most extreme urban heat waves ever recorded in the U.S.",
"text":"Deep in Tornado Alley, the Oklahoma City area was struck by the May 3, 1999 tornado, which produced the highest wind speed ever measured on Earth, around 302 mph.",
"text":"In January 2025, wind-driven wildfires — chiefly the Palisades and Eaton fires — swept through Los Angeles, destroying thousands of structures in one of the most destructive fire disasters in California's history.",
"text":"In December 2013, a major ice storm coated Toronto in freezing rain, downing trees and power lines and leaving hundreds of thousands without electricity over the holidays.",
"text":"The June 2013 Alberta floods, among the costliest disasters in Canadian history, forced the evacuation of downtown Calgary as the Bow and Elbow rivers overflowed.",
"text":"The January 1998 ice storm encased Montreal in ice, collapsing power pylons and leaving parts of the region without electricity for weeks in midwinter.",
"text":"The Great Smog of December 1952 blanketed London in toxic coal fog for days, killing thousands and prompting the UK's landmark Clean Air Act.",
"text":"In the summer of 2010, a record heat wave and surrounding peat and forest fires smothered Moscow in smog for weeks, with temperatures near 38°C and thousands of excess deaths.",
"text":"In July 2018, wind-driven wildfires swept through Attica near Athens during extreme heat, killing more than 100 people in Greece's deadliest fire disaster.",
"text":"During the 2019–20 'Black Summer' bushfires, hazardous smoke repeatedly blanketed Sydney, pushing its air quality to some of the worst of any major city.",
"text":"On 'Black Saturday' in February 2009, extreme heat and wind drove bushfires across Victoria, around Melbourne, that killed 173 people — Australia's deadliest bushfires.",
"text":"The 2010–11 Queensland floods peaked in January 2011 when the Brisbane River burst its banks, flooding thousands of homes and businesses across the city.",
"text":"On 26 July 2005, a record ~944 mm of rain fell on Mumbai in a single day, paralyzing the city and killing hundreds in the Maharashtra floods.",
"text":"The December 2015 South Indian floods submerged much of Chennai after its heaviest rains in over a century, displacing hundreds of thousands.",
"text":"In May 2020, Cyclone Amphan — the most powerful storm recorded in the Bay of Bengal — struck Kolkata directly, uprooting trees and cutting power across the city.",
"text":"In September 2009, Tropical Storm Ketsana (Ondoy) dumped a month's worth of rain on Metro Manila in hours, causing some of the worst flooding the capital had ever seen.",
"text":"Low-lying, subsiding Jakarta floods most rainy seasons; the January 2020 floods were among the worst, inundating large areas of the capital and displacing tens of thousands.",
"text":"The 2011 Thailand floods, the country's worst in decades, inundated areas around Bangkok for months and disrupted global electronics and auto supply chains.",
"text":"Low-lying Dhaka floods severely in heavy monsoons; the 1998 floods submerged about two-thirds of Bangladesh and much of the capital for weeks.",
"text":"Super Typhoon Mangkhut battered Hong Kong in September 2018 with fierce winds and a storm surge, flooding low-lying districts and swaying skyscrapers.",
"text":"In October 2019, Typhoon Hagibis — one of the most powerful to strike Japan in decades — brought record rainfall and widespread flooding to the Tokyo region.",
"text":"In August 2022, record-breaking rainfall flooded Seoul, submerging roads and low-lying semi-basement homes and killing several people across the capital region.",
"text":"In April 2024, Dubai was deluged by about two years' worth of rain in a single day — its heaviest on record — flooding highways and bringing its international airport to a standstill.",
"text":"In November 2009, sudden flash floods swept through Jeddah after record rainfall, killing more than 100 people in one of the city's worst modern disasters.",
"text":"From 2014 to 2017, the worst drought in about 80 years drove São Paulo's main Cantareira reservoir system toward empty, forcing water rationing across the megacity.",
"text":"In January 2010, torrential rains triggered deadly floods and mudslides across the Rio de Janeiro area, among the region's worst weather disasters.",
"text":"From 2015 to 2018 a severe drought pushed Cape Town toward 'Day Zero' — the day municipal taps would be shut off — narrowly averted through drastic water conservation.",
"text":"In April 2022, extreme rainfall triggered catastrophic floods and landslides around Durban, killing more than 400 people in one of South Africa's deadliest storms.",
