They call it ‘weather whiplash’- a year of historic floods,
fires, tornadoes, snow and ice where weather shifts from one wild extreme to
another.
In Wichita Falls, Texas it felt like the drought ended
overnight. In just 3 weeks, much of the state had gone from extreme drought to
crippling floods. Lakes are fuller than they have been in five years.
Scientists say climate change is exacerbating the wild swings.
‘The swings are getting wilder’, says Katherine Hayhoe,
Texas Tech Climate Change Researcher ‘Climate change is stretching out our
variability’. In the last 30 days, 2.6 trillion gallons of water have filled
Texas reservoirs, enough water to serve California for one and a half years.
Praful Rao,
Kalimpong,
Kalimpong,
Dist Darjeeling
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