Two articles from today's Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/10/flood-warnings-rain-great-britain
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/10/twelve-european-countries-broke-temperature-records-in-2022
The predominant reason why this has happened is climate change or, what some call and is pertinent to your question, climate chaos. Due to the changing climate, weather is becoming less predictable with more outliers, and natural disasters (floods, droughts, forest fires, etc) are becoming not...