Populations of forest trees and other native plants are genetically different from each other, and adapted to different climatic conditions. Therefore, natural resource managers must match the climatic adaptability of their plant materials to the climatic conditions of their planting sites. Generally, local populations are optimally adapted to their local climates, or nearly so; thus, local seed sources are usually recommended for reforestation and restoration.
The Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Midwest Region provides a summary of the region's weather and climate impacts from the previous quarter, and outlooks for conditions during the coming quarter. The region encompasses Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
This brief bulletin is published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment Canada and summarizes the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes, and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter.
The Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Southern Region—which includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas—provides a summary of the region's weather and climate impacts from the previous quarter, and outlooks for conditions during the coming quarter.
The Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Missouri River Basin Region—which includes parts of Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming—provides a summary of the region's weather and climate impacts from the previous quarter, and outlooks for conditions during the coming quarter.
This project from Climate Central is aimed at showing how Americans in all 50 states are experiencing the impacts of climate change. Content is focused on five threats—extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and both coastal and inland flooding—and the states most affected by these threats. Each state's page shows the major climate risks faced and the expected outcomes related to that risk. A variety of graphics shows observed and projected trends in temperature, precipitation, flooding, and other impacts.
This system offers a user-friendly and interactive environment for over 1,000 communities in Iowa relating to flood conditions, flood forecasts, data visualizations, and flood-related data, information and applications. The tool helps communities make better-informed decisions on the occurrence of floods and alerts communities in advance to help minimize flood damage.
Recovery from disasters is a key capability for federal, state, and local governments. To support this capability, practitioners at all levels need useful and validated metrics to measure and monitor how well a community is recovering from a disaster over time. Practitioners’ need for these metrics is echoed by the hazards research community, which has made the case for more systematic ways of measuring the disaster recovery process across events and over time to improve planning for, and recovering from, disasters.