Global Change in the Southeast

The United States Global Change Research Program published its scientific assessment of Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States in 2009.  It has a good overview of predicted regional changes.

One of the staggering predictions is that Wake Forest University will go from experiencing somewhere around 45 or so days exceeding 90 degrees F in a year to more than 100 days a year.  When you start to look at places like northern Florida and Texas, the numbers become hard to imagine, with temperatures predicted to be over 90 degrees for six months of the year.