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    Climate change in Atlanta, Georgia

    Climate change is affecting locations like Atlanta in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include heavier rain, more mosquito days, and greater health risks from humid heat.

    Explore these pages to learn how people in Atlanta are at risk in a warming world.


    Atlanta's climate threats in include:

    Explore some ways climate change is affecting Atlanta in summer

    Heavier rainfall rates

    Heavier rain threatens people, ecosystems, and infrastructure nationwide.

    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.

    More graphics about Atlanta and climate change

    Browse climate-related graphics for all seasons localized for Atlanta, available for download and use consistent with our Terms of use.

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