Climate change in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Climate change is affecting locations like Cedar Rapids in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include drought that affects agriculture, more mosquito days, and greater health risks from humid heat.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Cedar Rapids are at risk in a warming world.
Cedar Rapids' climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Cedar Rapids in summer
Stress to crops
Drought worsens crop damages from heat, and drier heat waves may cut global corn and soybean yields.
More record heat
Daily heat records have outnumbered daily cold records in recent years.
More mosquito days
Mosquitoes thrive in warm and humid conditions that are becoming more frequent
More dangerous heat
Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.
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