We have Kim Stanley Robinson on the terrifying shifts of weather: "What had been a blazing plain was now shadowed and malign... the awesome become awful, and all in the few minutes it had taken for a thin cloud to form".
(Stations outside the region, however, showed no trend at all, ruling out large-scale shifts of northeast weather).
Until the next sudden shift of the political weather vane.
We still control the future, however, as the magnitude of shifting weather patterns and the frequency of extreme climate events depends on how much more greenhouse gas we emit.
Frequencies of observations of fog, snow and thunder were generated before being transformed into a proportion using the count of weather readings per shift.
Latin America isn't the only coffee-producing region facing the impacts of shifting weather patterns.
Wisconsin farmers have said it is nearly impossible to convince Americans to take the jobs, which entail cleaning out stalls, covering night, weekend and holiday shifts, and working in every type of weather, including rain, snow, blazing heat and subzero temperatures.
The shift in weather lasts all of 20 minutes, though, before thick fog descends, cold wind howls and the island is grey and cold again.
But by the time that Milton was writing, in the mid-seventeenth century, the role of weather in literature was shifting.
Seasonal shifts in temperature and precipitation are largely the result of weather fronts crossing the North Atlantic.
