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Extreme Weather - referring to weather patterns made more extreme by human influence on the environment.

 extreme adj.

At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

 weather  n.

The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.

Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather. --Shak.

Fair weather cometh out of the north. --Job xxxvii. 22.

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