More lightning and thunder in a single day than we typically see in a year. Drenching rain in what was supposed to be a dry fall. An oddly cool summer, then record heat in November.
Is Orange County's wild weather somehow linked to planetary warming? Or is asking such a question falling prey to a very human tendency: magnifying local conditions to global proportions?
Is Orange County's wild weather somehow linked to planetary warming? Or is asking such a question falling prey to a very human tendency: magnifying local conditions to global proportions?
Climate experts say it's mostly a case of the latter.
No single weather event can be linked directly to global warming -- a statistical measure of changes over decades.
In other words, it's risky to draw conclusions about long-term climate patterns from a few weeks of weird weather.
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