Storms in the watch areas may contain wind gusts up to 70 mph, hail up to 2 inches in diameter and the potential for a tornado or two in the strongest storms, the National Weather Service said. - 45 million people affected, public urged to make preparations.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/weather/severe-weather-northeast-monday-forecast/index.html

Those straight line wind storms are no joke. The air goes from being completely still to 70 MPH gusting in about 10 seconds time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho

On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:09:14 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
<bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

>Storms in the watch areas may contain wind gusts up to 70 mph, hail up to 2 inches in diameter and the potential for a tornado or two in the strongest storms, the National Weather Service said. - 45 million people affected, public urged to make preparations.
>
>https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/weather/severe-weather-northeast-monday-forecast/index.html
>
>Those straight line wind storms are no joke. The air goes from being completely still to 70 MPH gusting in about 10 seconds time.
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho

https://cdn.impakter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Global-annual-absolute-deaths-from-natural-disasters-01.png

Last couple of decades, the big killer was earthquakes.

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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

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On Friday, June 25, 2021 at 1:32:59 AM UTC+10, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:09:14 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
> <bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Storms in the watch areas may contain wind gusts up to 70 mph, hail up to 2 inches in diameter and the potential for a tornado or two in the strongest storms, the National Weather Service said. - 45 million people affected, public urged to make preparations.
> >
> >https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/weather/severe-weather-northeast-monday-forecast/index.html
> >
> >Those straight line wind storms are no joke. The air goes from being completely still to 70 MPH gusting in about 10 seconds time.
> >
> >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho
>
> https://cdn.impakter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Global-annual-absolute-deaths-from-natural-disasters-01.png
>
> Last couple of decades, the big killer was earthquakes.

Storms did well in the 1990's and the 2000's. Extreme temperatures have started killing more people in recent decades, and can probably be expected to do better in future.

About the only kind of storm that is big enough to kill a lot of people is a tropical cyclone, and they aren't that common. If they hit the right area they can do very well, and anthropogenic global warming means that the biggest ones are going to be bigger than they used to be. even if they aren't expected to become any more frequent.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney