Climate Change and its Effect on NYC Weather
Updated: Nov 4, 2024
The change in climate has already begun to result in everyday events, whether you realize it or not. Currently, this has resulted in an increase in rain in NYC. If nothing changes this problem will increase in severity such as it did on September 29th. The increase in rainfall comes from the rise in humidity because of global warming. This has resulted in both large rain showers as well as a consistent amount of rain throughout the last month. NYC, as we’ve seen, as well as many other cities aren’t prepared for the amounts of rain we have been experiencing and will continue to experience. This change in weather is just one of the first fallouts of the worsening climate that we will continue to face. The most recent storm flooded subway stations, buildings, and even streets because NYC wasn’t built to handle these unpredictable weather conditions which caused life-threatening circumstances for some people in the city. The chief climate officer in New York, Louise Yeung, spoke to the issue saying that with the building of new infrastructures to combat the climate, it is important to not take the easy way out and instead focus on not progressing the problem further. Overall it is important for people to prepare for more intense weather events in the future such as the one on September 29th because the environment is just continuing to worsen.
