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One perspective to look at "global weirding" is that global climate change right now is seeing a massive influx of new energy, and not all energy becomes heat. So the volatility implied in "global weirding" doesn't necessarily mean we'll see much in the way of record lows/record cold places (though we'll still see some), but we'll see more energy in the climate in general: stronger winds, stronger storms, more storms, storms in different places "than usual".

We're seeing a lot of that indeed: this is the second tropical storm season in a row we've exhausted the prepared number of about 22 alphabetical "English first names" and have moved on to Greek letters and other stopgaps.

We've seen tropical storms hit more places, including some big activity in what used to be "far north" for tropical storm season such as New York state.

We've seen an expansion/shifting of "Tornado Alley" in the United States. States that never previously had tornado drills have had to add them and start trying to educate their residents.

We have seen some record snow storms and some record single day lows in many cities, especially in "wind chill" lows that factors in increased cold wind velocity, even if no one city can claim to be that much cooler than it was before.



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