Well, howdy there, internet people, let's Boa Gunn.

So today we are going to talk about 2023 being a record-breaking year.

We're number one. We're number one because we have some new information, an

updated list coming from NOAA that is the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric

Administration and they have this Atmospheric Administration.

And they have this chart they've been doing since, I want to say 1980-ish.

And it keeps track of extreme weather events that have caused more than a billion dollars in damage.

And this year, we have 23, which beats out the previous record of 22, which was set in, I want to say 2020.

Now it's worth noting that they just cost more than a billion. Not that they cost only

a billion. Those extreme weather events have cost 57.6 billion. It's worth noting that they

have not added the totals from Hillary hitting California out there that storm or the whole you know

drought thing that's happening those totals aren't in that yet.

So that number will go up.

That's pretty remarkable.

That's pretty amazing when you really think about it.

Not just that we broke the record,

but that there's four more months left in this year. The people who track these, they actually expected that 2020 record to

stand for quite some time because it was a big deal. There were a number of

major events and they thought that that was going to hold for a while. It didn't.

I don't imagine that this year's is going to hold for a long time either.

You have a lot of people who are still debating whether or not climate change is a thing. Climate change is

definitely a thing. It's real. You put more energy out there in the atmosphere, in the ocean, you get more extreme weather events and they are also more powerful.

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