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Climate change in North Carolina
Climate change is affecting locations like North Carolina in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include more extreme rainfall, greater health risks from humid heat, and more intense hurricanes.
Explore these pages to learn how people in North Carolina are at risk in a warming world.
North Carolina's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting North Carolina in summer
Heavier downpours
Climate change is supercharging the water cycle, driving heavier rainfall and flood risk.
More dangerous heat
Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.
More intense hurricanes
Warmer oceans from climate change fuel stronger hurricanes.
More risks for pregnancy
Climate change has doubled pregnancy heat-risk days worldwide (2020-2024).
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