I’m glad that someone has brought up this topic.
No. I don’t think the weather is more severe. I think less severe and has become boring in a lot of cases, I’m sad to say, especially me being a weather enthusiast.
I think that global warming is contributing to less interesting weather events happening, globally and here in New Zealand.

JohnGaul
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I agree with you, Phillip. We hear so much so soon after any disaster now. I remember my Mum telling me after the Napier earthquake in 1931, that in Auckland it was reported that there was an earthquake in Apia. It wasn’t until the next day they heard that it was actually Napier.

I agree that there isn’t more severe weather, but with modern technology we are more aware of it.
And is there not more pressure on the weather forcasters to be more accurate, as it seems to me that people are quick to blame them if the weather is worse than first forecast!
Even though as we all know what happens in one town can be totally different in the next!
Are weather forcasters needing to be more cautious and maybe over- do warnings, than not put out enough and endure the media/public backlash?
I would much rather have a forecast for severe weather maybe fizzle out or miss us than not be prepared to batten down the hatches!

Hi Phil
Yep I agree totally, it is just the technology which has moved. I think the weather is better now than it was years ago actually. I can remember numerous nights of storms without power when I grew up.

On a world wide scale we get to see heaps more of it than ever but that is not because it happens more, we just didn’t hear about it before.

True. Of course that won’t stop media summing up the year as ‘Year of Wild Weather’ as they always do.

No increase,we now live in a society where we must know/have any event immediately with the latest technology that enables us to “watch” almost as “entertainment”.
All flooding,heatwaves etc happened all the time throughout the years and will continue.