In the Northeast, the amount of rain that came down in very heavy events increased by more than 70 percent between 1958 and 2010. A new law in New York requires state agencies to start thinking ahead about increases in extreme rain  and other climate change risks.

Summary: Access an archive of statistically downscaled versions of daily and monthly temperature and precipitation projections. The archive also includes monthly hydrology projections.

Rick Stickler, floodplain manager with the city of Biloxi, looks at potential flooding impacts along the coast of Mississippi using the Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer at the Edgewa ...

Summary: Display maps, climographs, and histograms of projected change in temperature and precipitation from models in the CMIP5 experiment. Focus on any state, county, or hydrologic unit in the contiguous United States.

Last September’s widespread flooding in northeast Colorado, which saw just over 17 inches of rain in one week in the city of Boulder, was not made more likely or more intense by the influence of human-induced climate change on atmospheric moisture.

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Alaska’s coastal waters are especially vulnerable to the drop in pH—acidification—that comes when excess carbon dioxide dissolves into the ocean from the atmosphere. These maps show relative risk levels for commerical and subsistence fisheries.