Last updated October 15, 2021
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China Floods June - July 2016

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From mid-June through July, China endured a series of extreme precipitation events and floods, including the remnants of a Category 5 super typhoon—Typhoon Nepartak. All together, officials report on July 26 that 833 people died and 270 were missing due to the series of disasters. The floods are the second-deadliest weather-related event of 2016 and the fifth most expensive weather-disaster on record outside of the US. The heavy rainfall fits the current pattern experienced in the warming world in which higher temperatures are driving more intense rainfall events.

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