Every Season is Extreme Weather Season

From life-threatening heat to massive wildfires, increased tornado activity, and supercharged rainstorms, climate change is making extreme weather more frequent, more intense, more costly – and more deadly. Extreme weather affects Americans across the nation, particularly the most vulnerable among us: those without air conditioning, those who make their living working outside, and those whose homes aren’t equipped to withstand strong winds, heavy rain, and damaging flooding. Research shows a marked increase in heat waves, heavy downpours, floods, and other dangerous weather events over the last 50 years. These costly, destructive, and deadly events are how Americans most directly experience climate change on a regular basis.

To highlight the increasingly dangerous situation; help make the connection between climate change and heat waves, wildfires, flooding, and other extreme weather; and help build support for solutions, CAC will hold its Extreme Weather Emergency Tour in July and August 2025. During the tour, people, local leaders, and business owners, and elected officials whose communities have been directly affected by extreme weather will have the chance to share their stories. The tour will also highlight how the Trump administration’s rollbacks of climate protections – standards that are meant to address the root cause of extreme weather – and attacks on agencies like FEMA and NOAA are exacerbating extreme weather and weakening disaster preparedness and response. In addition, the tour will showcase solutions to the climate crisis that is exacerbating extreme weather, highlighting the importance of pollution protections, clean energy incentives, and more.