Summer Days Above Normal
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Provided by: Climate Central|Published on: June 26, 2026
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Synopsis
- This interactive resource allows students to explore the number of summer days with above normal temperatures for many American cities between 1970 and 2024.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: Climate Central
Region: North America, USA - Northeast, USA - West, USA - South, USA - Midwest, United States, North Jersey, Jersey Shore, New Jersey
Languages: English, Spanish
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This resource is an excellent visual on increasing temperatures across America.
- Each chart is available in English or Spanish and can be downloaded.
Prerequisites
- Students should be comfortable reading line graphs.
- Background knowledge of normal temperatures would be helpful for student understanding.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Cross-curricular connections can be made in social studies classes discussing geography and climate, health classes thinking about staying healthy on hot days, or math classes working with real-life graphs.
- This resource would work well for making predictions about the future. Based on the increase in above normal days in the past 50 years, how many more above normal days can be expected in the next 10, 25, or 50 years?
- A jigsaw activity would work well for this resource. Assign each student 2-3 states to review. Then, have students aggregate the data they reviewed and share their findings with the class; this can be done by speaking, writing, or recording.
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