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    Climate change in Rhode Island

    Climate change is affecting locations like Rhode Island in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include greater health risks from humid heat, more frequent and intense storms, and more coastal flooding.

    Explore these pages to learn how people in Rhode Island are at risk in a warming world.


    Rhode Island's climate threats in include:

    Explore some ways climate change is affecting Rhode Island in summer

    More dangerous heat

    Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.

    Changes in severe storms

    Certain conditions favorable to thunderstorms and tornadoes are occurring more often

    More coastal flooding

    In the U.S., coastal floods now happen three times more often than they did 30 years ago.

    More graphics about Rhode Island and climate change

    Browse climate-related graphics for all seasons localized for Rhode Island, available for download and use consistent with our Terms of use.

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