International Weather Highlights 2021: Epic Floods, Heat Waves, and Wildfires
LeComte, Douglas
Année de publication
2022
2021 was truly a year of exceptional weather extremes, a sequence of 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' kind of events, with highs and lows of temperature and rainfall so outlandish that they were truly unbelievable. Canada, for example, smashed its all-time temperature record with a Death Valley-like 121°F, followed a day later by a wildfire that destroyed the town that set the record. Death Valley itself tied the Earth's alltime reliably measured high temperature of 130°F. Europe established a new heat record with 120°F and a six-hour rainfall record with a remarkable 19.5 inches. And so it went.</p>
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