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Every place has its own dangerous weather at one time of the year or another. But did you know that the continental United States gets more violent weather than anyplace else on Earth? This came as a big surprise to early American settlers.

In a typical year, the National Weather Service reports the continental United States can expect these violent weather events:

 Roughly 10,000 severe thunderstorms

 About 1,000 tornadoes

 Approximately ten severe winter storms

 An estimated 2,000 flash floods

 Plus threats most years from tropical storms and hurricanes in the North Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea

Why all these extreme weather events? It’s like they say about the real estate business: The three most important things are location, location, and location.

As Figure 3-2 illustrates later in this chapter, one region or another of the continental United States is in pathway of a variety of moist and dry and warm and cold air masses coming at it from all directions.