Aon Benfield's catastrophe-model development center Impact Forecasting has revealed in its newly released 2014 Global Catastrophe Recap report the costliest weather events for the month of July, including major thunderstorms, flooding and not one but two super typhoons.

As it happens, one of these events has proven the costliest weather event to date thus far in 2014.

Click through to learn the Top 10 most costly weather events for July, and the worst of event of them all in the year to date—which caused more than 200 deaths.

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Shawn Moynihan

Shawn Moynihan is Editor-in-Chief of National Underwriter Property & Casualty. A St. John’s University alum, Moynihan has earned 11 Jesse H. Neal Awards, the Pulitzers of the business press; seven Azbee Awards, from the American Society of Business Press Editors; two Folio Awards; and a SABEW award, from the Society of American Business Editors & Writers. Prior to joining ALM, he served as Managing Editor/Online Editor of journalism institution Editor & Publisher, the trade bible of the newspaper industry. Moynihan also has held editorial positions with AOL, Metro New York, and Newhouse Newspapers. He can be reached at [email protected].