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Wetterextrem

weather extreme

noun VET-er-eks-traym Rare
Animals & Nature Weather

Also means

extreme weather event

Usage Note

Wetterextrem covers any unusually severe weather event — heat waves, extreme cold, floods or storms. German media use it frequently in climate-change reporting; the plural is Wetterextreme.

Examples

"Häufigere Wetterextreme sind eine direkte Folge des Klimawandels."

Natural Translation

More frequent weather extremes are a direct consequence of climate change.

Literal Translation

More-frequent weather-extremes are a direct consequence of-the climate-change.

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