Weather of 2011

The deadliest weather event of the year was the East African drought, with the resulting food shortages and famine killing more than 50,000 people, many of them children.

[4] From March to August, a heat wave and drought persisted across much of the central United States, causing US$12 billion in damage and 95 deaths.

[6] The Japan Meteorological Agency tracked 21 tropical storms in the western Pacific during the year, making it the fourth-quietest season since accurate records began in 1951.

In July, Hurricane Dora became the year's strongest tropical cyclone in the western hemisphere, with 1 minute sustained winds of 250 km/h (155 mph).

Hurricane Irene was the year's costliest and deadliest for the region, killing 48 people and leaving US$13.5 billion in damage as it moved from the Caribbean up the East Coast of the United States.

Water distribution in southern Ethiopia, amid the East Africa drought that killed over 50,000 people
Aerial footage after the EF5 Joplin, Missouri tornado , which became the deadliest single tornado in more than 61 years
A memorial in the Philippines to commemorate the deadly flooding from Tropical Storm Washi , known locally as Sendong