Tag: weather change

Pat Brennan, The Orange County Register More lightning and thunder in a single day than we typically see in a year. Drenching rain in what was supposed to be a dry fall. An oddly cool summer, then record heat in November. Is Orange County’s wild weather somehow linked to planetary warming? Or is asking such a question falling prey to a very human tendency: magnifying local conditions to global proportions? Climate experts say it’s mostly a case of the latter. No single...