WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR WEATHER?
What is extreme weather? 123 are people talking about it these days? 'Extreme' weather is 124 unusual weather event such
as rainfall, a drought or a heat wave 125 the wrong place or at the wrong time. In theory, they are very rare. But these days, our
TV screens are 126 showing such extreme weather events. Take just three news stories from 2010: 28 centimeters of rain fell
on Rio de Janeiro in 24 hours, Nashville, USA, had 33 centimeters of rain in two days 127 there was record rainfall in Pakistan
The effects of this 128 of rainfall are dramatic and lethal. In Rio de Janeiro, there 129 several landslides and hundreds of people
were buried. In Pakistan, the floods 130 20 million people. Meanwhile, other parts of the world 131 devastating droughts.
Australia, Russia and East Africa 132 been hit in the last ten years. And then there are unexpected heat waves, such as in 2003
in Europe. 133 summer, 35,000 deaths were 134 to be heat-related.
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