Climate change in Columbus, Ohio
Climate change is affecting locations like Columbus in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include more mosquito days, greater health risks from humid heat, and more frequent and intense storms.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Columbus are at risk in a warming world.
Columbus' climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Columbus in summer
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.
Changes in severe storms
Certain conditions favorable to thunderstorms and tornadoes are occurring more often
More graphics about Columbus and climate change
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