By James Bruggers, Inside Climate News, June 12, 2021
Experts are forecasting above-normal activity for this year’s hurricane season, which began on June 1 and runs through November. It wouldn’t be surprising if people in Texas, Louisiana and other vulnerable states are already feeling stressed.
The same goes for people in the flood-prone Midwest and in California, where numerous wildfires have already broken out.
Last year, a historic onslaught of 30 named storms hammered the Gulf Coast. And across the United States, there were 22 billion dollar disasters that claimed 262 lives, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information, including California’s worst fire season in history and a record of five named storms that made landfall in low-lying, vulnerable Louisiana. All amid a global pandemic that has killed nearly 600,000 Americans since March 2020.
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