Two fundamental points are emphasized [about breaking weather records]. The first is that records will always be broken. The second is that the occurrence of a record breaker is not of itself an indication of any change in causative mechanisms. In other words, unprecedented events do not presage extraordinary explanations— an admonition that could usefully be pasted above the desk of every headline writer.

—Weather (the bulletin of Britain’s Royal Meteorological Society), August 2002

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