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Just two days after the details of a master plan to expand Tweed New Haven airport were released in July, there was a harsh reminder that in a showdown between climate change and Tweed, climate change may well win.
Just two days after the details of a master plan to expand Tweed New Haven airport were released in July, there was a harsh reminder that in a showdown between climate change and Tweed, climate change may well win. Elsa, the first of three tropical systems this past summer that drenched the Connecticut shoreline, dumped a whole lot of water on Tweed. The terminal flooded; the runways flooded; the access roads flooded; nearby homes flooded. It nearly happened again when Henri came through and did happen again during Ida. And that was just one summer.
The problematic climate future Tweed faces actually is possible along just about all of New Haven’s shoreline.
A tropical storm in July was a harsh reminder that in a showdown between climate change and Tweed airport, climate change could win.