- March 12
- Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast. [1]
1907
- March 19
- 18.8cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch, Nevada, USA (state record). [1]
- June 1
- -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record low). [1]
1908
- May 1
- World's most intense rain shower (2.47 inches in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panamá. [1]
1909
- November 23
- 18.2 cm (7.17 inches) of rainfall, in Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state record). [1]
1910
- March 1
- An avalanche of snow hits two trains stranded for seven days outside the Cascade Tunnel below Stevens Pass, near Wellington, Washington, USA, killing 96. Deadliest avalanche in US history. [1] [377.13]
1911
- July 15
- 46 inches of rain (beginning July 14) falls in Baguio, Phillipines. [1]
1913
- March 21
- Flood in Ohio, USA, kills 400. [1]
- March 26
- City of Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum Rivers reach flood stage simultaneously. [1]
- July 10
- The highest temperature ever recorded in the United States is at Death Valley, California: 134 degrees F (56.7 C). [1] [5]
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1915
- June 27
- 100 degrees F (38 degrees C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record). [1]
- August 17
- Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage. [1] [245.4]
- September 29
- A hurricane claims 275 human deaths in the Mississippi Delta. [1]
- December 21
- 25.83 cm (10.17 inches) of rainfall, in Glenora, Oregon (state record). [1]
1916
- January 23
- Temperature falls from 44 degrees F (7 degrees C) to -56 degrees F (49 degrees C) night of January 23-24, in Browning, Montana, USA. [1]
- July 15
- 22.22 inches of rain falls in Altapass, North Carolina, USA. [1]
- August 29
- Tidal wave in port of Santo Somingo, Dominican Republic. US cruiser Memphis is wrecked on coral reefs and run aground. All 43 crew on board die. [1263.441]
1917
- March 23
- Four-day series of tornadoes kills 211 in Midwest USA. [1]
1918
- July 22
- Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park. [1]
1919
- September 18
- Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast. [1]
1920
- April 20
- Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama and Mississippi, USA. [1]
1921
- June 3
- A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado, USA. [1]
1922
- September 13
- 136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record). [1]
1923
- July 10
- 2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle (Rostov, Russia). [1]
1924
- June 28
- Tornado strikes Sandusky and Lorain in Ohio, USA, killing 93. [1]
1925
- March 18
- Eight 60-MPH tornadoes speed through Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee killing 689. [1]
1926
- January 1
- Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne, Germany. [1]
- September 18
- Hurricane hits Miami and south Florida, USA, destroying hotels, piers, marinas, mansions built in preceding years. 400 killed, 50,000 made homeless. [1] [341.116]
1927
- November 3
- Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vermont, USA). [1]
- November 17
- Tornado hits Washington DC. [1]
1928
- May 1
- Six children die and ten injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania. [1]
- July 6
- World's largest hailstones 1.5 pounds (17 inch diameter) fall in Potter, Nebraska, USA. [1] [5]
- September 17
- Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee, Florida, USA drowning 1,800-2500. [1]
1930
- May 13
- Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas, USA; this is the only known fatality due to hail. [1]
- June 13
- 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista, Greece. [1]
- September 3
- Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic). [1]
1931
- May 10
- Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington, New Jersey, USA. [1]
- July 16
- The Huang He floods kill between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people (the deadliest historic natural disaster). [429]
- August 31
- The Yangtze River floods, leaving 23 million homeless. [429]
- September 10
- The worst hurricane in Belize history kills an estimated 1,500 people. [429]
1932
- February 9
- US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, New York). [1]
- June 19
- Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China. [1]
- November 9
- Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur, Cuba; kills 2,500. [1]
1933
- February 6
- Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 metres (112 feet), in Pacific hurricane near Manila, Philippines. [1]
- August 11
- Temperature reaches 136 degrees F (58 degrees C) at San Luis Potosí, Mexico (world record). [1] [614.8]
- November 11
- "Great Black Blizzard" first great dust storm in the Great Plains of the USA. [1]
1934
- April 12
- Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 231 mph. [1]
- May 11
- Over two days, the most severe dust storm to date in the USA sweeps an estimated 350 million tons of topsoil from the Great Plains across to the eastern seaboard. [129]
- September 21
- Typhoon strikes Honshu Island, Japan, kills 4,000. [1]
1935
- February 11
- -11 degrees F (-24 degrees C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low). [1]
- April 15
- Another massive dust storm in the USA becomes known as "Black Sunday". [129]
- September 2
- A hurricane slams the Florida Keys killing 423. [1]
- October 25
- Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel, Haiti. [1]
1936
- April 5
- Tupelo, Mississippi, USA virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die. [1]
- April 6
- Tornado kills 203 and injures 1,800 in Gainesville, Georgia, USA. [1]
- July 13
- A Midwestern U.S. heat wave sets the all-time highest temperature records for Wisconsin (46 C), Michigan (44 C), and Indiana (47 C). [1] [5]
1938
- March 2
- Landslides and floods in Los Angeles, California, USA cause over 200 deaths. [1]
- September 21
- Hurricane (winds 183 MPH) in New England (Long Island, New York, New Jersey) kills 500-700, wrecking tens of millions of dollars in property. [1] [500.E10]
1939
- March 10
- Seventeen villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India. [1]
- May 5
- Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky, USA. [1]
- December 12
- Soviet prison ship Indigirka, carrying 2,500 prisoners capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 2,470 die. [1]
1940
- November 12
- Blizzard strikes midwestern US, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes). [1]
1941
- March 15
- Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151. [1]
- March 16
- Blizzard hits North Dakota and Minnesota killing 60. [1]
- May 25
- 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. [1]
1942
- January 27
- -19 degrees F (-27.4 degrees C), Netherlands' coldest day since 1850. [1]
- April 27
- Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma, USA killing 100, injuring 300. [1]
- June 12
- Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City, USA. [1]
- June 21
- 129 degrees F (54 degrees C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record). [1]
- July 17
- 3 feet of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15. [1]
- October 16
- Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta, India. [1]
1943
- January 20
- Temperature in Lead, South Dakota is 52 degrees F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood, South Dakota records -16 degrees F. [1]
- January 22
- Temperature rises 49 degrees F (9 degrees C) in two minutes in Spearfish, South Dakota, USA. [1]
1944
- June 23
- Four tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153. [1]
- December 18
- US Destroyers Hull, Spence, and Monaghan sink in typhoon off Philippines, 790 killed. [1]
- Year
- Global mean surface temperature at peak highest point since accurate measurements in 1880, beginning of gradual decline. [58]
1945
- September 16
- Barometric pressure at 856mb (25.55 inches) off Okinawa, Japan (record low). [1]
1946
- April 1
- Tsunamis generated by an earthquake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii. [1]
1947
- February 3
- -81 degrees F (-63 degrees C) in Snag, Yukon (North American record). [1]
- April 9
- Tornadoes striking West Texas and Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300. [1]
- May 5
- Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 and causes $850 million in damage. [1]
- July 22
- -8 degrees F (-13 degrees C), Charlotte Pass, New South Wales (Australian record). [1]
- December 26
- Heavy snow blankets Northeast USA, buries New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours; the same day, Los Angeles sets a record high of 84 degrees F. [1]
1949
- July 31
- Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida, kills the shortstop and third baseman. [1]
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