© 2020 Pexels - Climate researchers can now detect the fingerprint of global warming in daily weather observations at the global level. They are thus amending a long-established paradigm: weather is not climate ' but climate change can now be detected in daily weather. This research was carried out by ETH Zurich and the Swiss Data Science Center, co-directed by EPFL. In October this year, weather researchers in Utah measured the lowest temperature ever recorded in the month of October in the US (excluding Alaska): -37.1°C. The previous low-temperature record for October was -35°C, and people wondered what had happened to climate change. Until now, climate researchers have responded that climate is not the same thing as weather. Climate is what we expect in the long term, whereas weather is what we get in the short term ' and since local weather conditions are highly variable, it can be very cold in one location for a short time despite long-term global warming.
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