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Californian hurricanes, African drought, destruction of Pacific fish and seabird populations, floods in South America, etc. (For more weather hype, see Slate's "Assessment" of El Niño.)
There's an idea for a new cable channel: Weather Planet!, a cooler, next-generation Weather Channel that would broadcast nothing but radar and video images of extreme weather from all over the world--heavy snow, flash floods, golf-ball-size hail, hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, cyclones, temperatures less than zero or more than 100.
In fact Fort Charlotte is well regarded by New Providence residents as a shelter during hurricanes.
It's biblical--from hurricanes to blizzards, droughts to floods, and the occasional plague of locusts for good measure.
But all the papers fail to explain how a storm qualifies as a hurricane (once its top sustained winds pass 74 mph) as well as the quaint method by which tropical storms and hurricanes are named (an alphabetical system that starts over each year with a name beginning with "A" and is planned years in advance, so that we already know that the first such storm of 2002 in the Atlantic region will be called Arthur, the second Bertha, and the eighth Hortense).