🌲 Christmas Trees Feeling the Impacts of Climate Change

📈 ForecastWatch Evaluates Accuracy of Fall 2025 Seasonal Outlooks from Major Providers

Since 2003, ForecastWatch (our sister company) been known as the world’s premier forecast monitoring and assessment company for the 1-14 day out time period. They are now looking to expand their services and analyses to include seasonal outlooks. ForecastWatch collected seasonal temperature and precipitation outlooks from four major weather forecast providers for fall 2025, including the months of September, October, and November. Now that fall 2025 has concluded, they compared the forecasted outlooks to the climate summaries to see which providers were more or less accurate across the continental United States. The providers were fairly accurate with temperature forecasts, but some struggled with precipitation.

ForecastWatch

🇺🇸 50 Environmental Solutions from 50 States

In the United States lately, it seems like efforts to improve the climate and environment have been stifled or forgotten. However, The New York Times compiled a list of 50 solutions, one from each of the 50 states, to remind us that climate efforts are still taking place all around the country. For example, Colorado is building wildlife crossings, which can save animals, money, and human lives. In Florida, volunteers are planting red mangrove seedlings to restore critical habitats and strengthen shorlines from future storms. Idaho is powering nearly 500 buildings in the state capital from a clean, renewable source located deep underground. Iowa City made its buses free of charge, which reduced traffic and air pollution. Satellites and drones are helping farmers in Michigan use land and fertilizer more strategically.

The New York Times

🌲 Christmas Trees Feeling the Impacts of Climate Change

Almost everything is subjected to impacts from climate change, including Christmas trees. Ontario, Canada is home to more than 400 Christmas tree farms, and many are experiencing devastating impacts from climate change. The farms have been impacted by major climate events from extreme heat and drought to erratic freeze-thaw cycles. What used to take a Christmas tree seven to 10 years to grow now takes eight to 12 years. This had led to growers searching for more ways to be sustainable and affordable with biodiversity and species diversity. Real Christmas trees are more environmentally friendly compared to artificial trees, which are made from byproducts of fossil fuels and shipped long distances. An artificial Christmas tree would need to be used for more than 20 years to have the same carbon footprint as a real tree. However, many people are buying new artificial trees every two to three years.

James Chaarani, CBC News