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Program on Sea Level Rise

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

Climate Matters provides meteorologists with data & graphics on local weather events and their link to climate change.

Partnership Journalism

Partnership Journalism

Guided by data and science, our journalists collaborate with local newsrooms on compelling climate change coverage.

Climate Matters Highlights

Shrinking Cold Snaps

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

2021 Winter Package

Climate Central breaks down four key concepts to highlight when discussing climate change and the winter season.

Disaster Fatigue

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 change and health

Climate Central’s new toolkit shows how climate change is impacting health locally, and how that may change in the future.

New Toolkit

Climate Change and Human Health

Climate Change and Human Health

Resources on multiple health impacts of climate change, including locality-specific data and background information.

Special Sections & Tools

CoastalDEM® Coastal Risk Screening Tool

CoastalDEM® Coastal Risk Screening Tool

Improved elevation data indicate far greater global threats from sea level rise and coastal flooding than previously understood.

WeatherPower

WeatherPower

Use WeatherPower to bring wind and solar electricity generation into your forecasts, based on your local installed renewables capacity.

Realtime Climate

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

Picturing Our Future

Cities face unprecedented threats from multi-century sea level rise.

Vanishing forests tell a tale of rising water

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

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

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 —…

A hotter and drier climate is set to hurt agriculture in the West and help farmers in Asia

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.

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