![]() Summer, from mid-June to August, is warm to hot and humid. The Boston Marathon is held on the third Monday of April, ie around the middle of the month, when the average temperatures are very cool or even a little cold: in April, the average is 5 ☌ (41 ☏) as minimum temperature and 13.5 ☌ (56.5 ☏) as maximum temperature. When the weather is fine, in the afternoon, a cool and moderate breeze rises from the sea. In late spring and early summer, fog may form, maybe on rainy days. On sunny days, also the first afternoon thunderstorms can erupt. But already in April, the temperature can sometimes reach or even exceed 25 ☌ (77 ☏).īy May, the average temperature is pleasant, although there are still cool days, or even cold and rainy, while the first heat waves can raise the temperature above 30 ☌ (86 ☏). In March, which is often still a wintery month, it snows on a frequent basis, and sometimes, this can happen even in April, especially at the beginning of the month. In spring, from mid-March to mid-June, the weather continues to be unstable: the first warm days alternate with the return of cold weather. On other occasions, the south wind can bring some mild days, during which highs can reach 12/15 ☌ (54/59 ☏), but this occurs less frequently than in New York. ![]() An average of 125 cm (49 in) of snow falls per year. Snowfalls are frequent, and sometimes can be abundant, resulting in real snowstorms: for example, during the storm of the 17/18th of February 2003, 70 centimeters (27 inches) of snow fell, while on the 1st of April 1997, 64.5 cm (25.4 in) of snow fell, and on the 26/27th of January 2015, 62.5 cm (24.6 in) of snow fell. The freezing wind, called blizzard, can heighten the feeling of cold. The cold record is -24.5 ☌ (-12 ☏), recorded in January 1957. The goal to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius was the target countries agreed to at the 2015 conference in Paris.Winter, from December to mid-March, is very cold: the average temperature is just below freezing (0 ☌ or 32 ☏), but cold spells, with temperatures dropping to -15 ☌ (5 ☏) or even below, are not uncommon. MIT is projecting the clock during the United Nations climate change conference in Dubai. ![]() ![]() "I felt we needed a different sign for the 21st century besides the fossil fuel industries advertisement.” “I’ve been living all my life in and around Boston and I’ve seen the Citgo sign for my whole life," she said. The countdown project started back in 2020, when MIT Professor Susan Murcott created the first countdown projection with her students. The clock projection also shows greenhouse gas emissions and the percentage of renewable energy available in the world.Īn increase of two to three degrees Celsius would result in even more severe impacts: major loss of warm water coral reef systems a serious increase in extreme weather events and spread of infectious diseases significant inland and coastal flooding and islands such as the Maldives would be uninhabitable. “Trying to get the message further out to an average person, out to children, out to everyone will convey a greater collective action” to prevent a two degrees Celsius average increase, she said. Miller said she wants the message to be an alert but also to inspire action. “Even though a lot of us are not Boston natives, these kinds of statistics in terms of sports really hit home.” MIT students created a climate countdown clock to alert people to how rapidly the planet is warming and to inspire action. “Everyone is really alarmed because even college students at a very technical university have trouble conceptualizing how soon this is,” said Norah Miller, an aerospace engineering student at MIT, who created this year's climate clock message. There’s only 60 Bruins games, six Patriots games and 30 Red Sox games scheduled - or about six months - until scientists estimate the globe reaches a point of no return for extreme weather and species loss. This year the number of days left is measured in a very Boston metric: sports. It’s the third year the university has projected a giant countdown onto one of its buildings in Cambridge. MIT students created a countdown clock to show how close the globe is to reaching a concerning level of warming - a global average increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Facebook Email Flooding events, like this one in Montpelier, Vermont, are expected to increase with climate change (Mike Doherty/Vermont Public)
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