As the climate warms, some winter days seem more like spring

Writer Eugene Baldwin does not need to consult weather records to know how winters near his Illinois home have changed.

We don't need weather records to tell us the weather is changing.

Baldwin: “I live in a place which is at the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers. The landscape is absolutely stunning … and so I walk every day and I write essays about what I see.”

His writing echoes research that shows the frost-free season is growing longer as temperatures rise. In one essay, he writes that weather in December and January can now be spring-like.

Read the Yale Climate Connections story by Sarah Peach - “As the climate warms, some winter days seem more like spring.”