Deluges, hurricanes and other weather disasters are an annual occurrence: China will always have its floods, Bangladesh its cyclones, the Philippines its typhoons and America its tornadoes.

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And as the climate continues to change, weather disasters are only expected to become more frequent and more intense.

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As the country slowly recovers and rebuilds, the agencies continue to work in camps and neighborhoods that lack basic services, assisting Haitians who are struggling to get by and helping them weather new disasters such as Hurricane Sandy.

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Building these advanced models will require exploitation of the ensemble of modeling more fully to produce quantitative probabilistic forecasts of atmospheric quantities with estimates of uncertainty to generate probabilistic forecasts of the impacts and risks of weather disasters.

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People who live in areas frequently hit by hurricanes, snowstorms and other weather-related natural disasters often know how to proceed.

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Of the 300, 000 lives being lost each year due to climate change, the report finds nine out of 10 are related to "gradual environmental degradation, " and that deaths caused by climate-related malnutrition, diarrhea and malaria outnumber direct fatalities from weather-related disasters.

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Although the corn market most closely tracks news and weather in the US, any weather related crop disasters in China would at least lend support to corn prices.

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Total economic losses from weather-related disasters are higher in developed countries with more property and wealth at risk.

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