Climate change in Salinas, California
Climate change is affecting locations like Salinas in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include drought, potentially hazardous atmospheric rivers, and more frequent fire weather.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Salinas are at risk in a warming world.
Salinas' climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Salinas in summer
Worsening drought
Warmer, thirstier air worsens drought
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.
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.
More graphics about Salinas and climate change
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