evidence: Climate and weather related disasters surge five-fold over 50 years, but early warnings save lives - WMO report [...] Of the top 10 disasters, droughts proved to be the deadliest hazard during the period, causing 650,000 deaths, followed by storms that led to 577,232 deaths; floods, which took 58.700 lives; and extreme temperature events, during which 55,736 died. [...] It also calls for the development of integrated and proactive policies on slow-onset disasters such as drought.