Local climate impact

• La Porte Community Schools to close Lincoln Elementary, expand preschool program
• Notre Dame improves to 8-1 in 52-3 win over Florida State
• This week was one of the wettest in July, all-time
• South Bend asking for public input on Climate Action Plan
• Spring 2024 Outlook: Warm weather could continue
• Tom's Winter Forecast 2024: Final Grade
• Winter 2024 concludes as one of the warmest in history for Michiana
• Sudden Shift: Spring Planting Zones
• Sudden Shift: Power Policy
• Sudden Shift: Fall Heating and Cooling
• Sudden Shift: Summer Water Woes
• Sudden Shift: How Our Warming Climate Impacts You
• Sudden Shift: Warmer Winters
• Sudden Shift: A deep dive into our local data, with a climate scientist
• Fair and mild most of this week
• How agencies helped those in need fight the frigid temperatures
• Real tree or artificial: which Christmas tree is more eco-friendly?
• 5th National Climate Assessment: Impacts are widespread and worsening, but the worst can still be avoided
• Extreme rainfall has nearly erased severe drought
• A tale of two cities, shows how warming can vary
• Indiana meteorologists working to improve forecasts through data driven Mesonet
• Canada wildfire smoke lingers over Michiana for second-straight day
• IU Fellow evaluates South Bend's climate plan
• Flash drought concerns building as rain stays away
• How increasing billion-dollar storms relates to climate change
• Hourly rainfall rate increasing across Michiana
• Connecting the recent cold snap to climate change
• Juday Creek cleanup project seeking volunteers
• Earth Week 2023: The Unity Gardens open a new welcome center
• Earth Week 2023: Household Hazardous Waste
• Earth Week 2023: Discover The Outdoors field trip grant program
• Earth Week 2023: 'Smart' meters modernizing Michiana's power grid
• Earth Week 2023: Goats on the Go - a greener way to garden
• Cutting Carbon: Where does your energy come from and why does it matter?
• Tom's winter scouting report 2023
• Earth Week 2022: The St. Joseph River Inventory
• Earth Week 2022: putting yard waste back to reuse
• Earth Week 2022: Climate change Impacts on Wildlife Habitat
• $150-million dollar energy storage system proposed in LaPorte County
• Earth Week 2022: Cutting down on packaging pollution
• Goshen Drafts Flood Resilience Plan
• Winter 2022: The snowy finish, wasn’t enough to overcome a shirking cold season
• Local Lettuce: Growing greener in South Bend
• Fall becoming warmer
• Summer 2021: Plan for more like this
• U.N. Climate Report reinforces warning, local impacts of climate change will continue and likely worsen
• Damaged culvert forces U.S. 30 to close
• Keep watering as heat increases this weekend
• Officials 'flip the switch' on new St. Joseph Solar Farm
• Climate Policy: A breakdown of the first 100 days of the Biden Administration
• Earth week: Solar panels shining a light on a brighter future
• Large chunk of Indiana wetlands could soon be eliminated
• In the recycle bin or out with the trash?
• Earth Week: Planting a Greener Future
• Killer freeze more likely with warming climate
• Inside the recycling process at Recycling Works
• Winter 2021: Was technically a ‘normal’ winter
• No surprise, 2020 second warmest year on record
• Another warm winter means snow is once again behind schedule
• 2020: Warming climate shows little sign of slowing down
• Official's warnings of this weekend's fire watch
• Later 80s becoming the new normal
• New report highlights increasing flood risk locally and nationally
• Cooling degree days going down for Michiana, bucking national trend
• As weekend heat looms, future extreme heat events look more likely
• Washed Away: Beach erosion and a pandemic's effect on tourism
• Washed Away: How a tourist town is trying to hold back the water
• Carbon curve update: CO2 levels set another record
• Lakeshore flooding puts parts of New Buffalo under water
• Flatten the carbon curve
• Going green in quarantine: celebrating Earth Day 2020
• Record-high water levels spawning algae on Lake Michigan pier
• Another month of record breaking water levels in Lakes Michigan-Huron, Erie
• Lake Michigan water levels set another record.
• Record early start to spring in numerous states; Michiana already set to see pollen spike
• South Bend nearly 2 feet below normal snowfall this winter
• January 2020 was the warmest on record globally
• Lincoln Township beach closes indefinitely
• Lake Michigan levels break January record
• January 2020: Top ten warmest, wettest on record
• Washed Away: How communities prepare for more frequent flooding
• Washed Away: What is Climate Resilience?
• FEMA, St. Joseph County to buy 16 homes for flood relief
• Washed Away: How extreme events are changing attitudes on climate
• Washed Away: How flooding and a disappearing lakeshore have become more severe
• Lake erosion affecting property values in Berrien County
• Van Buren County asks state to declare shoreline a disaster area due to erosion
• January Outlook: Mild, mostly snow-less trend continues
• Year in Review 2019: Beach Erosion
• Volunteers help save Weko Beach house
• Then-and-now photos show just how bad the beach erosion is
• Lakeshore erosion causes residential road to partially collapse in Stevensville
• Lake Michigan still near record high levels; infrastructure and beaches suffering
• Berrien County Commissioners pursue disaster declaration to stop shoreline erosion
• Beach erosion expected for second time in two weeks
• Very strong winds, big-time waves to cause 'worst impacts seen in many years'
• First frost happening later and later
• Flooding and beach erosion along Lake Michigan
• Farmers should plan for wetter springs
• Later Leaves: A visual sign of climate change