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WEBClimate Central researches and reports on the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise and coastal flooding, extreme weather and weather attribution, global warming and local ...
Sea Level Rise - Climate Central
WEBClimate Central’s Program on Sea Level Rise strives to provide accurate, clear and granular information about sea level rise and coastal flood hazards both locally and globally, today and tomorrow.
New Presentation: Our Changing Climate - Climate Central
WEBNov 25, 2020 · Download Full Presentation (PPT, 148MB) Updated: April 2021. Climate Central is presenting a new outreach and education resource for meteorologists, journalists, and others—a climate change ...
Urban Heat Hot Spots - Climate Central
WEBJul 26, 2023 · Climate Central analyzed the urban heat island (UHI) index in 18,945 census tracts comprising 44 large U.S. cities in order to understand where urban heat is most intense within each city. The ...
Analysis: Global extreme heat in June 2024 strongly linked to …
WEBJun 28, 2024 · Nearly 5 billion people suffered from climate-change-driven extreme heat over 9 days in June. More than 60% of the world population faced extreme heat that was made at least three times more ...
Climate change and the escalation of global extreme heat
WEBMay 28, 2024 · This report assesses the influence of human-caused climate change on dangerous heat waves over the past 12 months (May 15, 2023 to May 15, 2024) using the Climate Shift Index. The period of ...
Surging Weather-related Power Outages - Climate Central
WEBSep 13, 2022 · Between 2000 and 2021, about 83% of reported major outages in the U.S. were attributed to weather-related events. The average annual number of weather-related power outages increased by roughly 78 ...
Show Up for Stripes Day on June 21, 2024! | Climate Central
WEBJune 21, 2024 is the seventh annual "Show Your Stripes Day"– an event dedicated to growing global awareness about human-caused climate change, its cascading impacts to our health and our homes ...
Climate Extremes - Climate Central
WEBJun 23, 2021 · The NOAA/NCEI Climate Extremes Index (CEI) tracks extreme weather events related to temperature, drought, heavy precipitation, and tropical cyclones. Even though the CEI data goes back to 1910 ...
Growing Degree Days - Climate Central
WEBMar 9, 2022 · Climate Central analyzed trends in GDD with a base temperature of 50 °F at 246 locations across the U.S. from 1970 to 2021 and found that: Over this period, GDD increased by 525 on average ...