Climate whiplash is already hitting major cities around the world, bringing deadly swings between extreme wet and dry weather as the climate crisis intensifies, a report has revealed. “And given that we’re looking at the world’s largest cities, there are really significant numbers of people involved.”Coping with climate whiplash and flips in cities is extremely hard, said Michaelides. The researchers have worked in Nairobi, Kenya, one of the cities suffering climate whiplash. Other whiplash cities include Baghdad, Bangkok, Melbourne and Nairobi. The cities that had at least five months more of both extreme wet and extreme dry in the second period were classed as having developed climate whiplash.

Source: The Guardian March 13, 2025 02:29 UTC