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This Year’s Extreme Weather Is Just Getting Started Climate change and natural variability are making 2022 a year of big weather events—so get ready for more heat waves, droughts, and hurricanes.

For example, more high-temperature records were broken over the past four decades in the United States than low-temperature records, according to a study published in 2009.

Rice University researchers are using AI to superpower extreme weather simulations with an aim to better protect people and property from future storms.

Among other extreme events this year was a system that plunged Texas into record-cold temperatures for more than a week, and brought several rounds of snowfall, including 7.5 inches in Austin.