We in Britain
are moaning about the unusual amount of rain we’ve been having since April. I
just read about the forty two deaths in the US
from storms and the heatwave, and the seventy eight deaths in Russia
caused by floods. As far as I know, we’ve only had one flood-related death.
It seems that everybody’s climate is becoming more extreme,
but ours remains temperate in comparison. So maybe I’ll moan a bit less.
2 comments:
It does seem like the weather is becoming a bit more extreme. Both the winters and summers in recent years. But, it seems to me like i remember our winters and summers being just like this when i was a kid. Then they became milder and now it seems like we're cycling back around. Since thinking about that i've heard other people say the same thing.
It's a difficult one, but what I heard one meteorologist say recently was this:
He said that 'extreme weather events' have always happened - record breaking rainfall, wind, high or low temeperatures etc - but they used to happen maybe once every two or three years. Now they're routinely happening two or three times a year. That, he said, is what's changed.
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