Extreme Weather: 2010, 2011 Record-Breaking Events

How This Year's Extreme, Record-Breaking Weather Has Rocked Planet Earth

Every year extraordinary weather events rock the Earth. Records that have stood centuries are broken. Great floods, droughts, and storms affect millions of people, and truly exceptional weather events unprecedented in human history may occur. But the wild roller-coaster ride of incredible weather events during 2010, in my mind, makes that year the planet's most extraordinary year for extreme weather since reliable global upper-air data began in the late 1940s.

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