: Tornadoes – Fifty Years

Normalized Tornado Damage Per Annum Since 1950 – Comparative tornado damage is decreasing.

This from NOAA’s web page.

Hurricanes:

“on the basis of the evidence I present here, claims to connect Atlantic hurricanes with global warming are premature. The Atlantic hurricane basin is currently seeing enhanced, rather than “unprecedented”, storminess that is comparable to, or even less active than, that seen in earlier busy cycles of activity.”Christopher W. Landsea”

Droughts

Figure 5: Fraction of the global land in D0 (abnormally dry), D1 (moderate), D2 (severe), D3 (extreme), and D4 (exceptional) drought condition (Data: Standardized Precipitation Index data derived from MERRA-Land).

Source: http://www.nature.com/sdata/2014/fig_tab/sdata20141_F5.html

H/T Dr Roger Pielke, Jr.

This is a graph of the Palmer Drought Index (USA) for the last century, up to 2009. Data from NOAA.

IPCC says: “There continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale.”