Minnesota is known for the intensity of its weather. But our climate is changing.
The Climate Adaptation Partnership’s Extension team offers resources to help you prepare for droughts, floods, heatwaves, wildfire smoke, and other weather-related challenges that are becoming more common across the state.
How to prepare for a weather emergency
Do you have a plan in case of an emergency? Simple preparation steps can go a long way in managing risk.
Climate change in Minnesota
Learn about the impacts of climate change in our state and local projections for the years to come.
Programs and trainings
Seasonal Climate Conversations
This free public webinar will help you deepen your understanding of how weather and climate impact Minnesota — now and in the future — and how to adapt to anticipated changes.
StormWise Minnesota
These hands-on weather and climate preparedness workshops will help you build actionable emergency-action plans for you and your community.
Community Climate Leaders
Seeking ways to take climate action? Connect with actionable climate science, impact strategies, and a local network of peers.
Climate Adaptation for Midwest Professionals
This series of professional development workshops and online resources instructs on integrating future climate data into long-term planning.
FloodWise Communities
Floodwise helps local governments understand stormwater system vulnerability and take action through a no-cost technical assistance program.
Resilience by Design
Resilience by Design equips architects, engineers, and planners with skills and practical tools to integrate future climate data into the design process
Risk to Resilience
Risk to Resilience offers growers the opportunity to learn about changing weather patterns specific to our region, improve farm planning, learn resilience skills, and more.
Weather ready resources
Preparing now for extreme weather and expected changes in our climate is the most effective way to protect your family, business, property and finances. The following Extension resources provide information on projected risks for our region and how to prepare.
- Tips for climate-ready gardening
- Auditing home lawn irrigation systems
- Gardening in hot weather
- How excessive heat affects the vegetable garden
- How a heatwave affects garden pests
- How to manage flood damage to trees
- Protecting trees and shrubs in winter
- Repairing flooded lawns
- Storm damage to landscape trees
- Water wisely: Start in your own backyard
- Watering the yard and garden in extreme drought
- Alfalfa during drought
- Climate analogs: A tool for guiding on-farm decisions
- Crop insurance and tax considerations for when extreme weather impacts your crops
- Hail damage to soybean crops
- Harvesting drought-stressed corn for silage
- Heat stress on small grains
- Wheat flooding and waterlogging
- What happens to soils during a drought?
- Wind and hail damage on corn
For questions or training opportunities related to intense weather, disaster preparedness and climate resilience, contact the University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership at .
The University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership offers critical resources and education to help communities respond to changing climate conditions and prepare for the years to come. Affiliated with both University of Minnesota Extension and the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, we perform foundational climate research while also offering hands-on support for climate resilience and risk-management to individuals and organizations across a range of backgrounds and industries in Minnesota, the Midwest region and beyond.
*20 Days
This figure represents the statewide average number of days per year with temperatures over 100°F that Minnesota could experience by the end of the century under a very high emissions scenario (SSP 585).
Reviewed in 2026