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Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals.. The annual mean temperature for the state is 43 °F (6 °C). [8] Vermont has a humid continental climate, with muddy springs, in general a mild early summer, hot Augusts; it has colorful autumns: Vermont's hills reveal red, orange, and (on sugar maples) gold foliage as cold weather approaches. [9]
Changing climate may reduce the output of Vermont's US $700-million dairy industry, which provides 70 percent of the state’s farm revenue. (As of 2019, about 135,000 of the 10 million US dairy cows were in Vermont.) [7] Higher temperatures cause cows to eat less and produce less milk. Climate change may also pose challenges for field crops ...
An increasingly aging population is expected to increase demand for aging-related services and healthcare. The University of Vermont Medical Center, with more than 8,800 employees, is the largest employer in the state. [185] In 2010, all of Vermont's hospitals billed patients $3.76 billion, and collected $2 billion.
Between Maui’s deadly wildfires, flash floods in Vermont, overwhelming wildfire smoke and more record-shattering heat waves, this summer has, once again, served up more evidence of how climate ...
2 Geography. Toggle Geography subsection. ... Civil War memorial in The Park in the center of town. ... Climate data for Rochester, Vermont (1991–2020 normals ...
A new law in Vermont — the first of its kind in the U.S. — will require fossil fuel companies to pay for a share of the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change.
Vermont lawmakers have passed a so-called "Climate Superfund Act" designed to make fossil fuel companies pay for damage from weather disasters fueled by climate change.
At the University of Vermont, Dupigny-Giroux served as an Assistant Professor from 1997 - 2003, Associate Professor from 2003 - 2014, Chair of the Department of Geography from 2015 - 2018, and Professor beginning in 2014, with secondary appointments in Department of Geology, the College of Education & Social Services, and Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources.