Weather is often a go-to conversation filler or ice-breaker. When people don’t know what else to say, they gripe about the heat or the cold or the rain or the snow. But severe weather is far more than an inconvenience, and it can be a matter of life or death.
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Take thunderstorms. There are roughly 100,000 thunderstorms every year in the United States, and 1 in 10 is considered severe. They cause flash floods, spark fires, and create hail, killing more people each year than do tornadoes, lightning, or hurricanes. Severe weather is growing more intense as well. Flash floods tear through dry waterbeds, city streets, and sewer drains at breakneck speed. But in developed urban areas, rain falls on impervious surfaces like sidewalks, parking lots, and driveways. Without land to absorb it, the water inundates roadways, culverts, and underpasses. Hail storms are expected to become more dangerous as the planet keeps overheating. Researchers predict climate change will mean fewer days of hail ahead, but an increase in the size of hailstones, making them more destructive and more lethal.
Stacker set out to find the places in the United States that have the most severe weather. Using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Stacker sorted a decade of storm events large and small from 2010 to 2020, weighing all of them equally, and created a list of counties with the most severe weather in every state.
You think your weather is bad? Take a look at the worst weather in New England, starting with Massachusetts.
Massachusetts: Middlesex County
- Severe weather events (2010–2020): 470 (42.7 per year)- Most frequent events:--- #1. Thunderstorm wind (23.6 per year)--- #2. Flood (9.2 per year)--- #3. Hail (6.4 per year)
Massachusetts’ Middlesex County, which is essentially Boston, is prone to storms called nor’easters, which move up the Atlantic coast and blow in with powerful northeast winds. The gusts often are stronger than those in hurricanes. Depending on whether they arrive over land or water, nor’easters can bring torrential rain, flooding, heavy snow, and huge waves as well as thunder and lightning.
Connecticut: Litchfield County
- Severe weather events (2010–2020): 274 (24.9 per year)- Most frequent events:--- #1. Thunderstorm wind (15.7 per year)--- #2. Hail (4.6 per year)--- #3. Flash flood (1.6 per year)
Picturesque, hilly and wooded, Litchfield County is a popular getaway location nestled in northwestern Connecticut. Its worst weather comes in the form of thunderstorms which typically, due to all the area trees, knock out electrical power to residents. Experts say the area needs to modernize with smart meters, buried wiring, and microgrids that can isolate areas of power failure and supplies.
New Hampshire: Grafton County
- Severe weather events (2010–2020): 330 (30.0 per year)- Most frequent events:--- #1. Thunderstorm wind (16.4 per year)--- #2. Flood (5.7 per year)--- #3. Flash flood (4.5 per year)
Storms can take a serious toll in Grafton County, where the White Mountain National Forest is located. In the summer of 2020, heavy rain, thunder, and lightning forced a local hospital, the region’s only trauma center, to cancel surgeries and other procedures when rainwater flooded its operating rooms.
Maine: Aroostook County
- Severe weather events (2010–2020): 410 (37.3 per year)- Most frequent events:--- #1. Thunderstorm wind (24.4 per year)--- #2. Hail (7.8 per year)--- #3. Flash flood (2.3 per year)
Aroostook County, which borders Canada in northern Maine, is larger than the state of Connecticut and known for its potato crop. It’s one of the wettest locales in the state, with some 145 rainy days a year. It’s also one of the snowiest, getting an average yearly snowfall of more than 94 inches, in a snow season that lasts seven months.
Vermont: Bennington County
- Severe weather events (2010–2020): 245 (22.3 per year)- Most frequent events:--- #1. Thunderstorm wind (4.8 per year)--- #2. Winter weather (4.2 per year)--- #3. Winter Storm (2.5 per year)
Bennington County, in southern Vermont, gets an average of 65 inches of snow each year. That’s more than twice the U.S. average of 28 inches. The average daily low temperature in January in Bennington is 12 degrees Fahrenheit.
Rhode Island: Providence County
- Severe weather events (2010–2020): 136 (12.4 per year)- Most frequent events:--- #1. Thunderstorm wind (5.6 per year)--- #2. Flood (3.5 per year)--- #3. Hail (1.6 per year)
Hurricanes pose the biggest threat of flooding in Providence County, but the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier is considered to have reduced the risk significantly. Completed in 1966, the barrier 1 mile south of downtown Providence is designed to protect against tidal flooding from coastal storms. The 700-foot concrete barrier extends across the Providence River, with gates designed to block the entry of floodwaters when closed.
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