Global Warming In Minnesota

Global Warming is having many affects on Minnesota's weather and is still getting worse to this day. It is causing more rain and snowstorms every year. Minnesota is one of the states that is getting affected the worst. The world's temperature has been rising almost a third of a degree per decade since 1970. Compared to most other states, Minnesota has been having temperature increases and more big rainstorms. Rising temperatures in Minnesota have caused less snow but more rain and mud.

The winter is one of the most common ways a fish dies. Since some fish die in the winter, this will not be prevented because global warming causes more snowstorms but not as much freezing ice in the winter. According to the Department of Natural Resources, Northern Michigan is the most deadly lake in winter that kills fish in the United States. According to the Department
Even though the temp has gone up about 2 degrees this causes big rainstorms. In Minnesota in 2012 lots of home were damaged by flooding from lots of rain in Duluth Minnesota. In the south of Minnesota many crops and lakes got soaked by the rain and it polluted lakes with sewage. 3 of the 5 biggest rainfalls in Minnesota have happened throughout November-March in the past 14 years. 15 inches of rain fell in 2007 in the south area of Minnesota. In 2012 Minnesota spent money on flood aid relief about $450 million. Researcher Ken Kunkel of the National Climatic Data Center in North Carolina reported "37 percent more rain falls in these big 2½-inch-plus storms than did 50 years ago in Minnesota." In the eastern area of Minnesota they get about 30 inches a year and is more than double the amount they used to get a decade ago. In June of 2014 it was the wettest since a century. Minnesota's gets on average 20 inches of rain a year, but part of eastern Minnesota gets about 30 inches a year and is the most common place where floods