‘Extreme weather is an integral part of the Earth’s climate’: ‘Throughout the recorded history of the Earth’s climate, extreme weather events have always occurred somewhere’
'...and are caused by large-scale atmosphere ocean flow patterns and their complex interaction with local/regional weather and climate features. An examination of the 20th century climate of North America reveals that the decades of 1920s and 1930s, known as the Dust Bowl years, witnessed perhaps the most extreme climate over the Great American Plains and elsewhere'