This city's winters are disappearing fast
Climate Connections

This city's winters are disappearing fast

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 8, 20261 min

Reno's fall freeze is arriving over a month later than in the past – the biggest shift in the nation. Learn more at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/

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It was the city's latest fall freeze on record.

freeze of the season is now happening 41 days later on average than it did in 1970.

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I'm Dr. Anthony Leiserwitz and this is Climate Connections. As the climate warms, the biggest little city in the world, Reno, Nevada, is experiencing some of the biggest changes. Last fall, temperatures in Reno did not dip below freezing until November 19th.

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It was the city's latest fall freeze on record. And scientists from the nonprofit Climate Central have found that Reno's first fall freeze of the season is now happening 41 days later on average than it did in 1970. Among the more than 200 US cities they analyzed, that's the longest delay.

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And so it is a pattern. Baker Perry, Nevada state climatologist, says the shift is driven by both global warming and rapid development as Reno's population booms and the city grows. As Reno and other areas have grown and developed, we've seen an increase in surfaces that are

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