Friday, January 18, 2013

Wild weather: Extreme is the new normal

New Scientist: ALL eyes have been on Australia in recent weeks as a blistering heatwave triggered huge wildfires. The result has been a slew of amazing stories, including a family escaping by jumping into the sea and meteorologists adding new colours to heat maps. But Australia's fires are just the most dramatic of a cluster of ongoing extreme weather events, including droughts in the US and Brazil and a lethal cold snap in Asia (see "Drought, fire, ice: world is gripped by extreme weather"). Lumping extreme...

URL: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729003.200-wild-weather-extreme-is-the-new-normal.html

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