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Our weather is likely to see wild swings from one extreme to another over short periods of time because of climate change.

And places like Cairo have 'flipped' completely, going from long-term wet to long-term dry. But eventually the whiplash phenomenon may spread everywhere as the air keeps warming due to climate change.

“Places that were historically wet are becoming dry and vice versa. Other places are now increasingly battered by both extreme floods and droughts,” says Michaelides.

However, 17 cities experienced an increase in both extremely dry and extremely wet periods and were defined as undergoing 'climate whiplash'.