Southern hemisphere's winter is over. Today is the third day of spring and magpies all over the land are swooping passersby. If today's weather forecast for Sydney (a maximum of 28 Celsius -- 82.4 Fahrenheit) is any indication, this is going to be a hot year.
Winter itself was a bit of a no-show this year:
See also: "Queensland asks 'what Winter?' After Unseasonably Warm Weather"
According to the UN, "about 40 million people had been affected" by the monsoon floodings in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh (by 2016 a combined population of approximately 1.5 billion, according to Google), while "Oxfam said its Bangladesh staff reported two-thirds of the country was under water and in some areas the flooding was the worst since 1988".
Is that flood necessarily caused by global warming and weather change? Sorry, I am not qualified to answer that.
Is that indicative of the potential effects of rising sea-levels, particularly on Bangladesh? Maybe not.
One thing I think I can say with some certainty: we better start thinking how to respond to extreme weather events affecting tens of millions of people.