
Last summer, we grappled with a . This summer, it rained so much, businesses in and feared they might lose the whole tourist season. In Vermont, people spent much of the summer cleaning up from catastrophic floods that also affected farms in , and . The unpredictability and volatility is anything but normal for a New England summer…but with climate change, you might say we’re now beyond normal.
In this series from the New England News Collaborative, journalists across the region worked together to tell stories about how climate change is affecting what we know, love and rely on in New England summers.
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Several global weather patterns were factors in the amount of rain that hammered the region.