Unseasonable snow in the Northern Hemisphere continued to make headlines in June. High parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Hampshire got up to 16 inches of snow, disrupting travel.
There were unprecedented summer snowfalls in central Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan that dumped historic accumulations in Samangan province, killing cattle and damaging seasonal crops.
1,000 people died, and 1,500 were wounded after a earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan, compounding the struggle in a nation already affected by a food crisis.
China’s Sichuan province was hit by a shallow earthquake that took the lives of at least four people and wounded 14 others.
Extreme storms, floods, and landslides wreaked havoc around the world this month.
Half a million people have been affected by the heaviest downpour in 60 years, triggering floods and landslides in Guangdong, China. The record-breaking event caused the evacuation of 177,600 people, destroyed 1,729 houses, and damage