CoastalDEM® Coastal Risk Screening Tool
Improved elevation data indicate far greater global threats from sea level rise and coastal flooding than previously understood.
Report: Coastal Wetlands Resilience
A new study conducted by Climate Central and published in Environmental Research Communications explores an array of possible futures for America’s coastal wetlands—the most advanced national-scale analysis to date.
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2022 Summer Package
Summers are warming across the U.S. Since 1970, average summer temperatures have increased in 96% of 246 U.S. locations analyzed.
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Western Fire Weather Days Increasing
New Climate Central analysis shows more frequent fire weather conditions across much of the western U.S. since 1973. Fire weather days have increased in all four seasons—especially spring and summer.
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Program on Sea Level Rise
Search by city, state or zip code to track the risk of flooding in your area.
Climate Matters
Climate Matters provides meteorologists with data & graphics on local weather events and their link to climate change.
Partnership Journalism
Guided by data and science, our journalists collaborate with local newsrooms on compelling climate change coverage.
Climate Matters Highlights
Shrinking Cold Snaps
From 1970 to 2021, the longest winter cold snaps shrunk for 97% of the 244 U.S. locations analyzed—a winter trend that can have year-round impacts.
2021 Winter Package
Climate Central breaks down four key concepts to highlight when discussing climate change and the winter season.
Disaster Fatigue
The time between billion-dollar disasters—time to help communities across the nation recover—has dropped to just 18 days on average in recent years (2016-2020), according to Climate Central’s new presentation of NOAA/NCEI data.
Climate change and health
Climate Central’s new toolkit shows how climate change is impacting health locally, and how that may change in the future.
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Climate Change and Human Health
Resources on multiple health impacts of climate change, including locality-specific data and background information.
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WeatherPower
Use WeatherPower to bring wind and solar electricity generation into your forecasts, based on your local installed renewables capacity.
Realtime Climate
Realtime Climate monitors local weather and events across the U.S. and generates alerts when certain conditions are met or expected. These alerts provide links to science-based analyses and visualizations—including locality-specific, high-quality graphics—that can help explain events in the context of climate change.
Trending Stories
Picturing Our Future
Cities face unprecedented threats from multi-century sea level rise.
Vanishing forests tell a tale of rising water
Global sea rise caused by heat-trapping pollution and a gradual sinking of the land around the Chesapeake have combined to create some of the…
Historic Harriet Tubman Sites at Risk of Rising Seas on Eastern Shore
Climate Central used its public and proprietary tools to assess the current and future coastal flood risk to the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway.
How tidal flooding is impacting students, caretakers and education in Atlantic City
As seas rise at a quickening pace, the water continues to creep closer to where the city’s students spend most of their days —…
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A hotter and drier climate is set to hurt agriculture in the West and help farmers in Asia
Corn and soybean yields may fall 5% globally between 2050 and 2100 because of the combination of a drier and hotter climate.
