Climate change: Weathering the coming storms

A team of scientists has been studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works — and what it can tell us about our future, writes Noah Gallagher Shannon

People talk as waves wash ashore and the outer bands of Hurricane Laura brought winds and rain in High Island, Texas. ( Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

When he thought back to the late-December morning when Berrotarán was entombed in hail, it was the memory of fog that brought Matias Lenardon the greatest dread. 

He remembered that it had drifted into the scattered farming settlement in north-central Argentina sometime after dawn. Soon it had grown thicker than almost any fog the young farmer had seen before.