This has been a year of wild — and sometimes unpredictable — weather, with extreme events hitting all corners of the world. A ferocious winter storm slammed much of the United States over Christmas weekend, with parts of Western New York under blizzard conditions for several days. The "bomb cyclone" storm stretched from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, bringing with it snow, high winds, and frigid temperatures.
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- On Dec. 23, nearly 1 million people in the South, Midwest, and East Coast were without power, and about two-thirds of the U.S. population was under a winter weather warning or advisory.
- Earlier in December, another powerful winter storm hit the United States Plains and Upper Midwest, affecting more than a dozen states. September saw two hurricanes cause extensive damage in the United States and the Caribbean.
- At the same time, severe thunderstorms hammered Australia, with hail and destructive winds causing damage in Queensland along the Gold Coast.
- Pakistan faced three months of heavy rains, which came after a prolonged period of heat in the spring. Flooding killed more than 1,400 people across the country during the summer and damaged or leveled more than 1 million homes, including many that were swept away by the water.
- A catastrophic drought in Somalia that began in January 2021 has so far displaced 1 million people. After four failed rainy seasons, crops aren't growing and it's estimated that millions of livestock have died.
- It was a scorcher of a summer across parts of Asia and Europe, with China experiencing an unprecedented heat wave and the United Kingdom seeing record-breaking temperatures.
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So you still wonder if 'Climate Change' and 'Global Warming' is a thing or an issue?
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