World's Most EXTREME Weather Events

Deadly? Check. Destructive? Check. These storms and weather events are some of the worst we’ve seen, as well as some of the craziest. Tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes galore; this is World’s Most Extreme Weather Events!

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5. 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
Just one day after Christmas, on December 26, 2004, a gigantic earthquake took place off of northern Sumatra’s west coast. It registered a 9.1 to 9.3 on the Moment magnitude scale and was classified as an undersea megathrust earthquake. That quake sent tsunamis in various directions and wreaked havoc in 11 different countries and caused fatalities in 14. The massive, up to 100-foot high tsunami waves were collectively called the Boxing Day tsunamis. For reference, ten-story buildings are around 100-feet tall. These waves did the most damage in Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Sri Lanka, and reports put the loss of life at right around 227,898. Roughly 9,000 tourists were a part of that number, and most of those were European; the quake and resulting tsunamis just so happened to occur at the peak of the holiday travel season. The earthquake resulted from faulting which lasted eight to ten minutes (the longest duration of faulting ever seen), and it was the third largest on record.

4. Great Blizzard of 1888
One of the craziest and most severe blizzards to happen in the United States started not long after midnight on March 12, 1888. It continued to dump snow on the northeastern part of the country for a day-and-a-half. Between 30 and 50 inches of snow was dumped in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, and some of the surrounding areas. Saratoga Springs, New York is said to have received 58 inches! Sustained winds of over 45 miles-per-hour didn’t help much and created snow drifts that averaged between 30 and 40 feet in height, although the highest came in at 52 feet in Gravesend, New York. Many people were stuck indoors for up to a week, fire stations were unable to operate, railroads were shut down, ships were wrecked and grounded, and all other means of transportation were wholly immobilized. More than 400 people lost their lives due to the blizzard and the ensuing cold that followed, with New York City seeing the most casualties at right around 200.

3. Hurricane Katrina
A lot of us will remember this extremely deadly, extremely destructive category 5 hurricane that happened in August of 2005. It caused damage and death in many states—mainly Mississippi and Louisiana, but also Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and more. It was the costliest and most damaging Atlantic hurricane ever and was the sixth most powerful ever recorded. It started up in the Bahamas and peaked on August 28, with winds hitting 175 mph at times. She even spawned many tornadoes across a bunch of different states as the winds really stirred things up. Georgia experienced 18 tornadoes on the 29th of August, which was a record for most tornadoes in one day in the state. Many evacuation orders and recommendations were put out, although many either decided to try to ride out the storm or couldn’t get out in time. Oh, and you may remember talk of levees breaking during the storm; 53 different levee breaches were reported in New Orleans, causing severe flooding throughout the city. In total, around 2,000 people lost their lives during the hurricane, and roughly $80 billion in damage was done.

2. 1900 Galveston Hurricane
On September 8, 1900, roughly 8,000 people fell victim to what is the worst natural disaster ever in the U.S. Galveston, Texas was, at the time, the biggest city in all of Texas. Of all Atlantic hurricanes, it was the fourth most deadly, and it was one of the deadliest to affect Canada as well. The island of Galveston was basically entirely covered in 8 to 12 feet of water, which caused every single house on it to get damaged. Not to mention 3,636 were wholly destroyed, and on top of the loss of life, about 10,000 were left homeless. At the time, the city was still thriving in what’s called the Golden Era of Galveston; however, the hurricane put an abrupt end to that. The hurricane was even the first of the season, and it peaked on September 8 (a day before it made landfall at Jamaica Beach, Texas, near Galveston) as a Category 4, with sustained winds reaching a maximum of 145 mph. In the U.S. alone, more than $34 million in damages were cause, with approximately $30 million of it occurring in Galveston.

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