Portland Weather In 2080 Will Be Warmer, Drier, Like Lincoln CA

PORTLAND, OR – You like to plan ahead. So, you're trying to stock up now on clothes that you'll be wearing in 2080. Who isn't? The question is, what's the climate going to be like then?

Warmer and drier. Just like today's climate in Lincoln, CA. – 546 miles south of Portland.

That's according to a new study by Matt Fitzpatrick from the the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Robert Dunn of North Carolina State University that was just published by the journal, Nature Communications.

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The study looks at what the climate in 540 cities in the United States and Canada will be like in 60 years – less than two generations.

The scientists build an interactive map that shows you where you can go right now to see what it will be like then. In most cases, people will have to drive about 500 miles or more to get a sense of how things will change.

If you think that it won't be that bad because politicians will suddenly recognize that climate change is real and impose restrictions on emissions, the bad news is that the scientists thought of that.

The data in the study assumes that the policies such as those called or the Paris Agreement have been put in place.

The authors of the study say that they developed the interactive map to give people a more "relatable" sense of what climate is and what kind of impact it could have.

So, Portland will be like Lincoln, CA., Washington, DC will be like Greenwood, MS, New York like northern Arkansas, San Francisco will be like Los Angeles and Los Angeles will be like northern Mexico.

Graphic via Matthew Fitzpatrick/University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.