Climate change in Monterey, California
Climate change is affecting locations like Monterey in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include potentially hazardous atmospheric rivers, more frequent fire weather, and more mosquito days.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Monterey are at risk in a warming world.
Monterey's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Monterey in summer
Warmer and wetter atmospheric rivers
Warming boosts moisture, making storms wetter, stronger, and costlier.
More fire weather
Wildfire seasons are lengthening and intensifying.
More mosquito days
Mosquitoes thrive in warm and humid conditions that are becoming more frequent
More weather-related power outages
Extreme weather events put stress on aging energy infrastructure.
Worsening drought
Warmer, thirstier air worsens drought
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