Some Extreme Events of Weather, Climate and Related Phenomena in 2005
2005年极端天气和气候事件及其他相关事件的概要回顾

In 2005,extreme climate broke many records: annual mean temperature of the Northern Hemisphere is the highest in the all-time record;on July 27th,Bombay of India recorded unprecedented heavy rainfall of 944 mm during 24 hours;the hurricane "Vince" as the first tropical storm landing the Europe attacked the Spain coast in October.In the American countries such as the United States and Mexico so on,the most damage resulted from hurricanes "Katrina","Rita" and "Wilma",all of which reached the strongest hurricane rank.Eight typhoons crossed south-eastern China and caused serious damage.Spain and Portugal experienced the worst drought conditions since the late 1940s.In a word,meteorological disasters happened very frequently and the related losses are still huger in 2005.