Climate change in Knoxville, Tennessee
Climate change is affecting locations like Knoxville in a variety of ways. In fall, these impacts include more unusually warm days, fewer freezing nights, and heavier rain.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Knoxville are at risk in a warming world.
Knoxville's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Knoxville in fall
More warm fall days
Fall (September-November) has warmed nationwide since 1970.
Fewer freezing nights
The coldest nights of the year are warming
Heavier rainfall rates
Heavier rain threatens people, ecosystems, and infrastructure nationwide.
Changes in severe storms
Certain conditions favorable to thunderstorms and tornadoes are occurring more often
Impacts to food prices
Extreme events fueled by climate change can damage crops, reduce yields, and disrupt supply chains.
More graphics about Knoxville and climate change
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