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Mid-Atlantic Regional Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook

Spring 2022

by Krista Romita Grocholski, Michelle E. Miro, Jessica Spaccio, Samantha Borisoff, Lena Easton-Calabria, Arthur T. DeGaetano

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (MARISA) Regional Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook is a quarterly series produced by the MARISA program, a collaboration funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the RAND Corporation and researchers at Pennsylvania State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, Cornell University, and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. This series draws information from regional climate centers, news and weather information, and high-resolution climate data sets for the benefit of policymakers, practitioners, residents, and community leaders in the Mid-Atlantic region, with a focus on the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Projections of future climate in the Chesapeake Bay watershed come from the best available scientific information. For this spring 2022 version of the series, Part 1 details significant weather events that occurred from March through June 2022; Part 2 characterizes seasonal temperature and precipitation compared to historical averages; Part 3 describes seasonal weather forecasts and pertinent information for the upcoming summer season; and Part 4 presents an interactive tool that shows an analysis of future projected changes in total monthly precipitation, compared to two baseline periods, across the Mid-Atlantic.

Access the tool on midatlanticrisa.org

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