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Flooding, Hugh L. Carey Tunnel during Hurricane Sandy. Flooding was the second highest cause of weather related fatalities in the United States in 2018. [12] The projected 11-21 inches of sea level rise in New York City by 2050 [13] and 4.17–9 feet by 2100 [14] will compound the impacts of coastal flooding.
For the United States, the extremes are 134 °F (56.7 °C) in Death Valley, California in 1913 and −79.8 °F (−62.1 °C) recorded in Prospect Creek, Alaska in 1971. The largest recorded temperature change in one place over a 24-hour period occurred on January 15, 1972 in Loma, Montana, when the temperature rose from −54 to 49 °F (−47.8 ...
Minimum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888 Maximum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888. The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. [1]
On May 21, 2022, heat became prevalent in the Mid-Atlantic, resulting in a near record hot Preakness Stakes horse race, with Baltimore and Philadelphia having temperatures of 95 °F (35 °C), Washington DC at 92 °F (33 °C), and New York City at 90 °F (32 °C). [6] This heat persisted into May 22, when Dulles International Airport hit 91 °F ...
Between 1971 and 2000, average summer temperatures rose by 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit in the U.S., and by 2.7 degrees across much of the West. Those unwelcome facts have left many residents scrambling ...
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has noted that "[m]ost of the state has warmed one to three degrees (F) (0.5 - 2 °C) in the last century", [5] and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has further observed that "[t]he annual average temperature statewide has risen about 2.4 °F (1.3 °C) since 1970, with winter warming exceeding 4.4 °F" (2.4 °C).
Climate change has led to the United States warming by 2.6 °F (1.4 °C) since 1970. [ 3 ] The climate of the United States is shifting in ways that are widespread and varied between regions. [ 4 ][ 5 ] From 2010 to 2019, the United States experienced its hottest decade on record. [ 6 ]
The 2021 Western North America heat wave was an extreme heat wave that affected much of Western North America from late June through mid-July 2021. [5] The heat wave affected Northern California, Idaho, Western Nevada, Oregon, and Washington in the United States, as well as British Columbia, and in its latter phase, Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, and Yukon, all in ...