Climate change in Palm Springs, California
Climate change is affecting locations like Palm Springs in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include potentially hazardous atmospheric rivers, more frequent fire weather, and hotter summers.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Palm Springs are at risk in a warming world.
Palm Springs' climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Palm Springs in summer
Warmer and wetter atmospheric rivers
Warming boosts moisture, making storms wetter, stronger, and costlier.
More record heat
Daily heat records have outnumbered daily cold records in recent years.
More fire weather
Wildfire seasons are lengthening and intensifying.
Hotter summers
Hotter summers bring more dangerous heat, higher energy bills, and worse wildfire.
More weather-related power outages
Extreme weather events put stress on aging energy infrastructure.
Worsening drought
Warmer, thirstier air worsens drought
More graphics about Palm Springs and climate change
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