Summer also brings on rainstorms with lightning and flash flooding.
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Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Sep. 2025
Scientists across the globe agree that nations need to rapidly embrace renewable energy to stave off the worst effects of climate change, including extreme heat and drought; larger, more intense wildfires and supercharged hurricanes, typhoons and rainstorms that lead to catastrophic flooding.
Heavy rain is not uncommon in South Asia this time of year, but experts largely agree that the frequency and intensity of cloudbursts have increased in recent years, in part due to climate change.
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Mithil Aggarwal,
NBC news,
21 Aug. 2025
Warmer air soaks up water like a sponge, and all this extra moisture can result in extreme rain and sudden downpours like cloudbursts, especially when that air meets the mountains.
However, similar alerts could be issued in the coming weeks and months as weather trends cooler and more snowstorms form.
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Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
The sound does much of the work in action sequences obscured by blinding snowstorms and flashing emergency lights, punctuated by creative acts of accidental self-harm that save our protagonists from certain death more than once.
But conventional solar and wind installations are no match for temperatures that plummet below –40 degrees Celsius, winds of up to 300 kilometers per hour (kmh) and ferocious blizzards.
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You Xiaoying,
Scientific American,
7 Aug. 2025
Dairy Queen has brought back 85-cent blizzards, at least for a limited time.
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