Some Of Texas Will Feel Like 115 Degrees This Week

Be ready for a hot week across Texas with high heat combined with high humidity will lead to temperatures that feel as hot as 115 degrees.

Abilene, San Antonio, and Brownsville are cities that could set record highs and see dangerous humidity. Texas can also expect severe storms this week, including a couple of reports of six-inch hailstones in the Panhandle.

In just the past week, a destructive hail of four to six inches in diameter has slammed portions of the Texas Panhandle.

On Sunday, there were numerous five-inch hailstones reported across Texas, including a couple of reports of six-inch hailstones in the Panhandle. While this isn't a state record (6.40 inches that fell in 2021) this is another day in 2024 with large hail reported across the country. There have been 3,479 severe hail reports so far this year which the 4th most to date, and most since 2017.

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Stacker ranked the most expensive climate disasters by the billions since 1980 by the total cost of all damages, adjusted for inflation, based on 2021 data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The list starts with Hurricane Sally, which caused $7.3 billion in damages in 2020, and ends with a devastating 2005 hurricane that caused $170 billion in damage and killed at least 1,833 people. Keep reading to discover the 50 of the most expensive climate disasters in recent decades in the U.S.

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Although the full extent of damage caused by Hurricane Ian in the Southwest is still being realized, Ian is already being called one of the costliest storms to ever hit the U.S. Stacker took a look at NOAA data to extrapolate the costliest U.S. hurricanes of all time.

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