The phrase "weather calamity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a disastrous event caused by weather conditions, such as storms, floods, or hurricanes.
Example: "The region was devastated by a weather calamity that left thousands homeless."
Alternatives: "natural disaster" or "meteorological disaster".
There is, however, one potentially major exception to this over-all trend: those who have experienced an extreme weather calamity in the past.
— While tornadoes and floods have ravaged the South and the Midwest, the remote western edge of the Oklahoma Panhandle is quietly enduring a weather calamity of its own: its longest drought on record, even worse than the Dust Bowl, when incessant winds scooped up the soil into billowing black clouds and rolled it through this town like bowling balls.
It's not so much that we should accept everything, in this tradition, as that we have no choice: the weather, calamity and beauty are coming our way whether we like it or not.
Last year, 700 floods, storms and other weather calamities claimed 75,000 lives worldwide and caused about $65 billion in economic damage.
Be it the darkness, ghosts, weather calamities or whatever is unknown to the man is feared the most.
But here at the margins, it seems like weather calamities are capable of reaching everyone, because experience has shown us that being unsuspecting is not an adequate defense.
Silent in the middle of turmoil, a cube of heat and expectancy, the place felt exciting and we were visited by a fresh sense of the surrounding city... Weather, the calamities, the dead ends, the air drill poised to open the street, the dentist's drill poised ready to open the tooth..
The German insurer Munich Re estimates that the cost of weather-related calamities in North America over the past three decades amounts to thirty-four billion dollars a year.
For the past decade and a half, governments around the world have been investing in elaborate plans to "climate-proof" their cities — protecting people, businesses, and critical infrastructure against weather-related calamities.
Mr. Beebe noted that some Federal Emergency Management Agency workers were still helping with cleanup operations from weather-related calamities earlier this year that involved two-thirds of the state's 75 counties.
That crisis prompted a national debate about the government's ability to deal with weather-related calamities and led to a rare, well-publicized apology from Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
