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Köppen climate types in Rhode Island, showing that the state is now divided between oceanic, humid subtropical, and warm-summer humid continental climate types. Climate change in Rhode Island encompasses the effects of climate change, attributed to man-made increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, in the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
Rhode Island (/ ˌ r oʊ d-/ ⓘ, pronounced "road") [6] [7] is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. [8]
Southern Rhode Island and southern Connecticut are the transition zone from continental climates to the north, to temperate climates (called subtropical in some climate classifications) to the south. In this region, summers can be quite long and hot, with humid, tropical air masses common between May and September.
The chair of Rhode Island's climate council says the state won't know if it's on track to meet emissions-reduction mandates until next year.
The basic climate of the Northeast can be divided into a colder and snowier interior, including western Maryland, most of Pennsylvania, most of North Jersey, Upstate New York, and most of New England, and a milder coastal plain region from Cape Cod and southern Rhode Island southward, including Long Island, Southern Connecticut, New York City ...
The Northeastern coastal forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion of the northeast and middle Atlantic region of the United States. The ecoregion covers an area of 34,630 sq miles (89,691 km 2) encompassing the Piedmont and coastal plain of seven states, extending from coastal southwestern Maine, southeastern New Hampshire, eastern Massachusetts, and Rhode Island ...
The US Geological Survey and independent geological researchers began the formal process of mapping Rhode Island's bedrock geology, carrying out quadrangle mapping between 1944 and 1971. Until 1985, Rhode Island did not have a designated state geologist. Alonzo Quinn (1940-1977) served unofficially as state geologist until his death. J.
Regions of Rhode Island (3 P) W. Water in Rhode Island (6 C) ... Pages in category "Geography of Rhode Island" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.