Don't you feel the weather is turning out to be too extreme, too often in the last few years? In the last couple of years, I have heard about record-setting weather conditions all around the world. Last year, it was the deluge in Mumbai and Bangalore, the kind we had not ever seen. We also heard that the US had a record number of hurricanes last year, highlighted by Katrina. We then heard about the unusually heavy snowfall and cold in eastern parts of US and Canada. This year, there has been a never-heard summer in Europe and North America. I read that weather reporters in Europe have been forced to get new thermometers because their existing ones were not designed for temperatures this high. Many countries are recording all time high temperatures. The evergreen England too is drying up!
Is it just my imagination, or am I seeing far too many such incidences in the recent past? Record rainfalls, record heats, record deaths, especially in the more 'advanced' northern hemisphere of the Earth. Is it all a part of global warming? Or are these the early signs of the impending obscuration/cataclysm that Hindu mythology describes as "Pralaya"?
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