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Natural Disaster Losses So Far in 2025

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CBS News published a good article yesterday (07/29/2025) about natural disasters thus far in 2025. One table shows that of the six largest insured U.S. natural disasters in the first half of this year, four of these events were tornado, severe-storm, or flash-flood related.

If a Natural Disaster Review Board were in existence today, it seems that there would be more than enough work to justify its existence...

Natural disasters have caused more than $131 billion in losses so far in 2025
 
False alarm regarding the tsunami not as high as expected, or something else?

Wave height plus all of the NOAA people bragging what a great job they are doing. See nearby. There are others but they all say about the same thing.

Yesterday, I had an online conversation at LinkedIn with a former NOAA person explaining how well they did with the Texas floods. While the initial FFW was good they were hours too late with the FFE. While certainly not a terrible performance, it is not something I would be bragging about.

It is extremely discouraging for those of us who are huge fans of NOAA's core mission to see what is apparently the acceptance of -- at best -- mediocrity.
 

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