«I've been involved in seven or eight different
storm events around the country and the county has done things faster than anybody I've ever seen,» Gerrity added of Nassau.
Masters's column then delves into specific
events from
around the globe: extremely low Arctic ice and rapid melting in Greenland; a radical shift from El Nino to La Nina; an Amazonian drought; a bizarre period for tropical cyclones and monsoons; floods, heat waves, record rainfalls across the world; the strongest non-coastal
storm in U.S. history; and a long list of
countries that set record high temperatures.