Once again this summer, the weather is making news. For much of the last few weeks and months, weather has been a big story in many parts of the country and elsewhere in the world.
And now, the latest, strong winds from the effects of a hurricane, setting wildfires in of all places Hawaii, where in the popular town of Lahaina on Maui there are reports coming in of homes and business being damaged or destroyed by flames.
All this summer, unusually extreme heat has been the usual, with record highs and record long streaks of record hot weather from here in California to Arizona, Texas and several other states.
Canada has seen heat they don’t usually see that has sparked massive wildfires with the smoke drifting through the atmosphere polluting the skies from Chicago to New York.
There have been severe thunderstorms and record amounts of rain with severe flooding in some areas of the northeast like Vermont and rare tornado warnings posted in the nation’s capital. And tornadoes this past spring that ripped apart towns in the middle part of the country.
And over in Europe, record heat there too, that sparked some of the worst wildfires ever seen in Greece.
There’s an old adage about not complaining about the weather because there’s nothing we can do about it. But it sure would be nice if we could.
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