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Across large areas of Australia, temperatures hit life-threatening levels. Penrith, a suburb of Sydney, reached 47.3 degrees Celsius on Sunday, or just over 117 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Over the last few years, dozens of studies have investigated the influence of climate change on events ranging from the Russian heat wave of 2010 to the California drought, evaluating the extent to which global warming has made them more severe or more likely to occur.
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As morning temperatures across the U.S. broke records Monday ― residents of Watertown, New York, woke up to minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit and temperatures plunged to minus 19 degrees in Des Moines, Iowa ― many other parts of the world were warmer than usual.&
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Climate science at a glance
Climate change has been linked to an intensification in nor'easter storms.[1]The temperature contrast between warm off-shore waters and cold continental air fuels nor'easters, and warming of Atl
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Record Cold RecapMonday, Jan. 1Subzero wind chills plunged all the way into parts of the South Monday morning.
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The UK has been hit by a number of extreme weather events in the past decade, including heavy rain in summer 2007 and 2012, the record wet and stormy winter of 2013/14 and cold and snowy winters in 2009/10 and 2010/11.
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List of notable records broken since December 25Thursday, December 28
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Are we safe to ignore global warming because it’s cold outside? In a tweet published on December 28, President Donald Trump wrote this:
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Villagers in South River, a palm-fringed coastal community in the low-lying South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, are used to battling cyclones, floods and tsunamis but are now facing a new threat - rising seas.
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As the Christmas holiday nears, parts of the Midwest are nearing a record-long wait for the season's first snow.Des Moines, Iowa, hasn't seen measurable snow – at least 0.1 inch – since March 21, the day after spring officially arrived.
