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State Climate Summaries

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These state summaries were produced to meet a demand for state-level information in the wake of the Third U.S. National Climate Assessment, released in 2014. The summaries cover assessment topics directly related to NOAA’s mission, specifically historical climate variations and trends, future climate model projections of climate conditions during the 21st century, and past and future conditions of sea level and coastal flooding. Click on each state to see key messages, figures, and and a summary of climate impacts in your state.

West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments

The West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments (WWCRA) provide a consistent, baseline assessment of climate change impacts to water supply and demand across the West. The baseline assessments conducted through WWCRA evaluate risks to water supplies related to changes in snowpack, changes in timing and quantity of runoff, and changes in groundwater recharge and discharge. WWCRAs also evaluate risks to water supplies related to increase in the demand for water as a result of increasing temperatures and reservoir evaporation rates.

NEWA—Network for Environment and Weather Applications

This website retrieves data from on-farm, grower-owned weather stations throughout the Northeast and in a number of other locations across the U.S. These data are combined with data from existing observations and forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide integrated pest management (IPM) and crop production model results and tabulated weather data summaries to growers. Currently, 30 IPM and crop production tools and 13 degree-day tools are freely available from the NEWA website.

Climate Explorer

The Climate Explorer offers graphs, maps, and downloadable data of observed and projected climate variables for every county in the contiguous United States. The tool offers graphs and maps of climate projections for temperature, precipitation, and related climate variables for two possible futures—one in which humans make a significant attempt to reduce global emissions of heat-trapping gases, and one in which the rate of global emissions continues rising through 2100.  

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