climate events

Atmospheric pattern occurrences

Climate events are significant weather phenomena or long-term atmospheric changes, particularly those linked to climate change: hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, floods.

The phrase often appears in discussions of extreme climate events becoming more frequent or intense.

News coverage increasingly uses the term when connecting specific disasters to broader environmental trends.

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fire season · heatwave · tornado · extreme weather · blizzard · polar vortex · monsoon · flash flood · cyclone · typhoon · storm · rainfall · erosion · devastation · displacement · warming · extreme · disaster

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temporal scale

climate eventsweather forecasts

Predictions of atmospheric conditions

weather patterns · weather reports

naturalness/causation

climate eventscontrolled environments

Spaces with managed conditions

climate control · indoor climate · greenhouse conditions

Family

climate, climates, climatic, climatically, climatological, climatology, climatologist, acclimate, acclimation

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G