Climate in 2070

• PRECIPITATION
• Extreme rainfall by day
• Extreme rainfall by week
• Drought frequency

• AIR TEMPERATURE
• Nights below 0°
• Days above 90°
• Days above 100°
• Length of
  growing season
• Onset of spring

The climate becomes wetter in the 2030s and 2040s, but then starts to dry out. A blue bar indicates each year’s total precipitation in inches; the red line traces average total precip for every 5-year period for historical record (left) and scenario (right).