Daniel Swain in The Washington Post — Cold, heat, fires, hurricanes and tornadoes: The year in weather disasters

The weather was wilder than usual this year, and the reasons vary, climate experts say. “The only two truisms when it comes to extremes in climate change are that almost everywhere: The hot hots are getting hotter and more frequent, and the wet wets are getting wetter and more frequent,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA who specializes in the relationship between climate change and weather.