Climate change in Memphis, Tennessee
Climate change is affecting locations like Memphis in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include greater health risks from humid heat, hotter summers, and more frequent and intense storms.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Memphis are at risk in a warming world.
Memphis' climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Memphis in summer
More record heat
Daily heat records have outnumbered daily cold records in recent years.
More dangerous heat
Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.
Hotter summers
Hotter summers bring more dangerous heat, higher energy bills, and worse wildfire.
Changes in severe storms
Certain conditions favorable to thunderstorms and tornadoes are occurring more often
More graphics about Memphis and climate change
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