This year has produced some really wild weather. And when I say wild, I mean truly unexpected, record-breaking, extreme events that defied our understanding of Earth’s climate system.

To be fair to the scientists who spend their lives trying to predict the weather, it’s hard to understand something that’s undergoing rapid, unprecedented, human-driven change. To try and grasp at some meaning, however, we’ve compiled a list of the eight wildest weather events from the last few months. Every event on this list was fueled by rising global temperatures, underscoring the many ways that human-driven global warming is messing with the climate.

Historic Hurricane Erin

Hurricane Erin, the first major hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season, will also be remembered as one of the fastest-strengtheni

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