Climate change in Topeka, Kansas
Climate change is affecting locations like Topeka in a variety of ways. In fall, these impacts include changes to fall foliage, heavier rain, and greater health risks from humid heat.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Topeka are at risk in a warming world.
Topeka's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Topeka in fall
Impacts to fall color
Conditions that trigger fall color are shifting with climate change.
Heavier rainfall rates
Heavier rain threatens people, ecosystems, and infrastructure nationwide.
More dangerous heat
Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.
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 Topeka and climate change
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