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    Climate change in San Diego, California

    Climate change is affecting locations like San Diego 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 San Diego are at risk in a warming world.


    San Diego's climate threats in include:

    Explore some ways climate change is affecting San Diego 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.

    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.

    More graphics about San Diego and climate change

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

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