Extreme Weather

Two days ago we had extreme weather where I live. But one thing is for sure: "extreme weather" is nothing new. There was the 1939 hurricane, the blizzard of 78, the heat waves of the 60's. There have been tsunamis, blizzards, lightning, floods, since time immemorial. But now it seems that even a ninety degree day is extreme weather though it is July or the dog days of August. I think we had another name for it back when I was a kid. The word was summer. And lightning, rain, thunder...we had a name for that: storm. And blizzards, snowstorms, cold...we had the name winter to pin onto those instances of temperature reduction. We never really thought of weather in the same way as we do today. For us weather might be cold or hot, wet or dry, but we would've laughed if you called weather an extremist. Perhaps we may even graduate terms and eventually if we have enough hot days in summer and cold days in winter and heaven forbid, storms...we may then call weather a terrorist.