Who hasn鈥檛 heard the somewhat sarcastic phrase 鈥淚f you don鈥檛 like the weather, wait five minutes鈥? Did you know there is now a term for this? They are called 鈥榳eather whiplash鈥 events.
Many wonder if climate change is the reason we鈥檝e had these day-to-day dramatic changes from hot to cold or cold to hot.
As a climate scientist, Cameron Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Geography in the College of Arts and Sciences at 小黄片视频, gets asked this question a lot. Looking beyond just the average temperatures and statistical means, he decided to take a more analytical look at weather whiplash and add to a growing body of climate change literature examining temperature variability trends. Read the full story.