According to the UK Office for National Statistics, there were 3,271 excess deaths in England and Wales in the summer of 2022. “It is important to note that these numbers of heat-related fatalities are approximated, and totals are expected to be even higher,” the insurance broker said. Using excess mortality data, Aon reported that the June heatwave killed at least 3,700 people, while the July heatwave claimed 13,000 lives. Two separate extreme heatwaves hit Europe in mid-June and mid-July, affecting hundreds of millions of people, particularly in western, southern and central parts of the continent. (Image credit: UK office for National Statistics) Extreme heat killed over 16,000 people in Europe in 2022 Excess mortality in England and Wales during the summer of 2022.
These last two events are discussed in more detail below. The third-quarter Aon report focused on three of the most consequential disasters of 2022: Florida’s Hurricane Ian, the summer drought and heat waves in Europe, and monsoon flooding in Pakistan. Europe had a top-five disaster in both 20. The most expensive European weather disasters, according to EM-DAT (for 1980-2021) and insurance broker Aon (for 2022). Last year saw Europe’s most expensive weather disaster on record, a $43-billion flood that hit Germany and Belgium. If EM-DAT, the international disaster database, agrees with Aon’s assessment of the damages from the 2022 European drought and heat wave, this would mark two consecutive years with a top-five most expensive disaster on record for Europe (Figure 3). Note that disaster losses have high uncertainty, and the database from insurance broker Aon has at least two $20+ billion-dollar events not shown here: 2020 monsoon flooding in China ($41 billion 2022 USD), and the 2003 drought/heat wave in Europe ($26 billion 2022 USD). There has been a concerning rise in these mega-disasters in recent years, as evidenced by the white linear trend line, and 2021 had the most on record: five. is from NOAA data for the rest of the world up to the year 2021 is from the international disaster database EM-DAT.
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Time series of global weather mega-disasters costing at least $20 billion (adjusted to 2022 dollars). This is greatly concerning, as mega-disasters are likely to overwhelm local resources needed to respond and recover, threaten insurers with insolvency, and disrupt global supply chains.
There has been a substantial rise in such $20-billion-plus mega-disasters in recent years (Figure 2). Even so, Hurricane Ian’s damages may well top $100 billion, said insurance broker Gallagher Re, making the hurricane a top-five most expensive weather disaster in world history.ģ) Two weather mega-disasters costing over $20 billion have hit Earth in 2022: Hurricane Ian in the U.S., and the European drought and heat wave. The relative lack of strong storms and billion-dollar storms is partially the result of a La Niña event in the Pacific, which tamps down tropical cyclone activity there. Only 10 major tropical cyclones formed in the Northern Hemisphere through mid-October 15 is the average. In 2021, there were six billion-dollar tropical cyclones by the end of September, and in 2020, seven. According to the World Weather Attribution program, high temperatures exacerbated by climate change made 2022 Northern Hemisphere droughts – responsible for 89% of this year’s drought costs – more likely.Ģ) Only three billion-dollar tropical cyclones have occurred in 2022: Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Fiona in the Atlantic, and Typhoon Nanmadol in the western Pacific. Combined with a global food crisis because of the pandemic and war in Ukraine, this was a terrible year to suffer heavy agricultural losses from extreme drought. When considering drought losses for an entire year, this figure already gives 2022 the ninth-highest drought damages of the past 48 years.
Notable features of this year’s disastersġ) Drought damages are already $38.4 billion globally and will surely rise. The 29 global weather-related disasters of January – September 2022, according to insurance broker Aon.
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