Including the closely related term extreme weather.
… warmer than the 1961-1990 average. All ten of the warmest years in the UK have occurred since 1990, with the nine warmest occurring since 2002. Along with warming at the Earth’s surface, many other changes in the climate are occurring: • warming oceans • melting polar ice and glaciers • rising sea levels • more extreme weather events Across the world we are already seeing devastating…