Please don’t bring facts to the debate. That will rip apart the arguments of those who blame the “increase” in storms on climate change.
If I’ve counted right, that’s 477 weather-related deaths for all of 2017. Any death is lamentable, but 477 out of a population of 325 million is, for all practical purposes, nothing.
Does that chart include the 12,000 killed by the hurricane in Porta Rica?