“Hopefully, 2005 was a blip - a year of unlucky extremes and disasters, and not the beginning of an irreversible global trend to weather weirdness and meteorological mayhem,” writes David Phillips, the senior climatologist for Environment Canada who issued the report.
Mr. Phillips, who was called on regularly this year to explain seemingly freak weather to bewildered reporters, has argued repeatedly that weather was generally more extreme and less predictable this year. That explanation was echoed in Thursday's list of most serious weather events of the year."
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