Climate Central's tool, launched June 2021, will automatically send alerts when unusual weather, tides and other climate phenomena are detected in your area of the US — making connections between weather, news and climate.

The purpose of Realtime Climate [2] is to push out local information about climate change when it's most relevant and useful, particularly for journalists. The alerts include links to science-based analyses and visualizations such as locality-specific, high-quality graphics, that can help explain events in the context of climate change.

• Sign up here [2].
• FAQs [3].
• Recording of June 21, 2021 webinar [4] describing the tool and ways it can be used to support news coverage. Speakers, including Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading (creator of the warming stripes visuals [5]), Univision's Hilda Garcia and Axios' Andrew Freedman, talked about their experiences helping large audiences understand climate science. Click here for a summary [6] of the topics covered, information about the panelists, and online resources for integrating localized climate data visualizations into stories and communications about climate-related events.