Climate Central: The ongoing, intense drought in California; the nonstop storms that left parts of Great Britain waterlogged all winter; the bitter winter cold in the eastern U.S. -- these are just some of the extreme weather events from this year that could be examined in an annual report that looks for the fingerprints of climate change in such occurrences.
The report, a supplement published in the journal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society since 2011, rounds up some of the most notable events from...