An update on the relief efforts due to February floods in Mozambique is available here . According to news reports, the floods killed at least 700 people and destroyed the homes or jobs of approximately 2 million. Wildfires burned across portions of the western U.S. Click here for more information. The government of Nicaragua and Red Cross workers on Thursday the 22nd supplied medicine, food and blankets to help more than 5,000 people affected by floods in eastern Nicaragua. In the U.S., parts of North Dakota and Minnesota were declared disaster areas due to heavy rains that hit portions of these states.
Details are also available in the Weather Log section above.
A Southeast Regional Climate Center report describes June weather and climate impacts over the southeast in detail. Hazard event satellite images available courtesy of NOAA OSEI Satellite Images WWW site. The Selected U.S. City and State Extremes provides a list of new records that were set across the U.S. during June 2000.