Climate Local

Climate Local is a set of web pages from Climate Central, one for each of a list of U.S. cities and states, that says how climate change shows up in that place.¹ A reader searches for their city, or picks it or their state from the list.^1,3 Climate Central does not give a total; counting the list for this page on 2026-10-23 found 247 cities, grouped under the 50 states and the District of Columbia, each of which has its own page.³ Climate Central says the coverage is large but limited, and suggests a nearby city or the state page when a city is missing.^1,3

The page for Birmingham, Alabama shows what a reader gets. At the top are three numbers, each with its data source named²:

• average annual temperature up 3.9°F since 1970 (NOAA ACIS)²
• annual precipitation up 3.6 inches since 1970 (NOAA ACIS)²
• 58 days in 2026, as of 15 October, with temperatures made at least twice as likely by climate change (Climate Shift Index)²

Then come the threats for the current season, which on that day was fall²:

• 14 more days of extreme heat a year since 1970, counting days hotter than 95% of local temperatures in 1991 to 2020, which for Birmingham means above 93.15°F (NOAA ACIS)²
• 26 billion-dollar hurricanes in Alabama from 1980 to 2025 (U.S. Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters)²
• a 37% rise from 1958 to 2021 in the rainfall of the heaviest 1% of rain events each year across the Southeast (Fifth National Climate Assessment)²
• fall average temperatures up 3.7°F since 1970 (NOAA ACIS)²

Below that, short cards connect the numbers to everyday matters (cooling schools, downpours, fall colour, warmer fall days, hurricanes, food prices), each linking to a fuller story in Climate Matters.² At the foot of the page is a library of graphics localized for the city, for every season, which can be filtered by keyword and downloaded for use under Climate Central's terms.^2,4 These allow any non-commercial use, commercial news use by media organizations and educational use by accredited educational bodies, with credit and, online, a link.⁴ Other commercial use, financial products in particular, needs written permission, and bulk downloading and scraping are forbidden.⁴

Each page puts long-term records for one city next to a daily attribution count and a short list of what those changes mean there, in figures a reader can check against the named sources.