Wild weather

News headlines are constantly finding new words for extreme weather events, but how much of this lingo is meaningful and how much is just a muddled message from meteorologists? Nate Byrne tells us what works – and what bombs.

WILD WEATHER


The science of weather is both simple and hard – we know the physics, but the vastness of it all means errors abound. The atmosphere is a huge beast. The bit that most of our weather happens in is just the lowest level, but even that stretches from the...

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