Opinion If only the extreme weather knew the extreme nicknames we give it Malcolm KnoxJournalist, author and columnist October 10, 2026 — 5:00am October 10, 2026 — 5:00am You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Gift icon0 / 3 No gift articles left You've used all of your gift articles. 3 more will become available on the 1st of every month. Rain bombs, heat domes, atmospheric rivers, polar vortexes. Everyone used to talk about the weather without doing anything about it, as Mark Twain’s friend Charles Warner complained. But now we do do something about it. We make up new words for it. What excitement is in store for this summer? Not just a hot one, or the once-novel but now old-hat El Nino. This year, the Southern Oscillation Index is sending warnings. We have unusual variances in the Indian Ocean Dipole, maybe a Walker Circulation Breakdown. There’s every chance of a Climate Whiplash. We think we can tame nature with terminology. Meanwhile we send our prime minister to console the Pacific with words, as if we can talk hard realities into our control. Experience generates new language, but...

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