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getting used to wild weather, May seems stuck on strange, the Washington Post reports.
Torrential downpours in Texas that have whiplashed the
region from drought to flooding. A heat wave that has killed more than 1,800
people in India. Record 91-degree readings in Alaska, of all places. A pair of
top-of-the-scale typhoons in the Northwest Pacific. And a drought taking hold
in the East.
“Mother Nature keeps throwing us crazy stuff,” Rutgers University climate scientist Jennifer Francis says. “It’s just been one thing
after another.”
Jerry Meehl, an extreme-weather expert at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, points out that May is usually a pretty
extreme month, with lots of tornadoes and downpours. Even so, he says, this has
been “kind of unusually intense.”
Read the Washington
Post story - “This has been a month of extreme weather around the world”.
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