US Climate Zone Shifts

On the Earth Day 2022, I have seen a lot of attention on mother nature. Getting more awareness and more attention, the HOPE to stabilize global temperature rises.

I recently studied statewide temperature data[1]. The historical data analysis showed global warming has intensified since 1990 and lasted for more than 30 years. My pairwise temperature correlation analysis provides me a simplified view for climate zone shifting - the US is getting warmer and dryer compared to 30 years ago. This finding is consistent with the USDA Hardiness zone[2]. By this trend, New York State will soon become a warm and moist zone as opposed to the current cold and moist climate.

Here are the Earth Day Google doodle ttps://www.google.com/doodles/earth-day-2022 and the New York Times Wordle from Earth Day

[1] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/statewide/time-series

[2] https://www.arborday.org/media/map_change.cfm