fluke

You can read that as a fluke, a demonstration of climate change or a metaphor: What had unfolded over the previous night and into early Wednesday morning was certainly a form of explosive combustion.

This effect was sparked by a historical fluke: a cluster of deaths of 27-year-old musicians within a two-year period.

Nicks’ was a fluke pregnancy, she said, and carrying to term would have ended her career as she knew it.

"Starting my business was a fluke - I'd love to say it was all part of my master plan, but I had an incredible job in the pharma industry, I had a six figure salary, I had my children in private school, holidays every year, and I left it," Mrs Lloyd told the BBC.

That Tampa has gone more than 100 years without a Category 3 or greater landfall is a coincidental fluke not lost on regional planners.