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    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

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

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