Nashville sprouted leaves by Feb. 10 this year, marking the third-earliest leaf out on record since at least 1981.
Tennessee weather in 2023 was defined by winter heat, destructive winds and drought
In 2023, the year started hot and it ended as Nashville’s hottest year on record.
Mayor Cooper drops a plan for adapting to climate change on his way out the door
Soon after taking office, Mayor John Cooper signed the Global Covenant of Mayors, committing the city to creating plans to both mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Has Nashville been hot or just…average…in 2023?
In Nashville, the first seven months of the year have been warmer than average. But the reason why has been easy to overlook.
‘It’s hard for everybody out here’: Unhoused Nashvillians are struggling to stay cool in intense summer heat
Summer has only just begun, and Nashville already experienced a dangerous heat wave that has left outreach groups concerned about how the high temperatures are impacting the city’s unhoused population.
Dirt is key to understanding Tennessee’s environmental disasters in 2022. Let’s talk about it.
In 2022, soil was a key factor in all of Tennessee’s environmental disasters.
Nashville’s 6th-hottest summer had drought, thunder and lots of 90+ temps
Nashville recorded its second-hottest July on record. Only four days dipped below 90 degrees.
With fewer trees and more concrete, Nashville is heating up. What’s the plan?
Humans seem to instinctively understand the problem of too much concrete and not enough trees. Typical science fiction portrays dystopias as grey scapes of massive buildings, while magical fairylands are almost always green with towering trees. In a nutshell, this grey-green divide reflects the temperature, and often race and wealth, of communities.
Nashville just had its fifth-longest streak of 90°+ temperatures. Another streak starts Tuesday.
If the heat has felt particularly brutal this summer, it is not your imagination.
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