Skip to content

New York State's Changing Climate

The sections below summarize how variables like temperature, heat waves, rainfall, heavy storms, sea level rise, and other conditions are expected to change between now and the end of this century in New York State.

Select a topic to learn more about observed and projected changes to New York State’s climate. To read the full chapter from the technical report, download New York State’s Changing Climate.

To see the full climate projection datasets and learn more about how
they were developed, visit Future Climate Projections.
Yellow sun against orange clouds.

Temperature

Raindrops falling on wooden deck rail.

Precipitation

Hurricane approaching the Atlantic coast of the United States

Extreme Events

Ocean fading into the horizon

Ocean Conditions

Lake in the Adirondacks

Rivers and Lakes

Download the
Chapter: New York
State’s Changing
Climate

Citing and Using Assessment Content

We encourage everyone to use and cite information from the New York State Climate Impacts Assessment. Please refer to our guidelines for citing and using assessment content.