According to Victor Gensini, a meteorology professor at Northern Illinois University, the reason why the US leads the world in weather catastrophes is due to the Gulf of Mexico and the elevated terrain to the west.
The United States is Earth's punching bag for nasty weather.
Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet, several experts said. Two oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, jutting ...