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Climate resiliency was a primary factor in our decision to move last year to western New York. Farmland, fresh water, and not too hot. Check out Figure 10 in th

Climate resiliency was a primary factor in our decision to move last year to western New York. Farmland, fresh water, and not too hot. Check out Figure 10 in the linked report... http://uploads.oneregionforward.org/content/uploads/2015/01/Resilient-Buffalo-Niagara.pdf http://uploads.oneregionforward.org/content/uploads/2015/01/...

mikewarot 5y ago
Looks like you'll be growing peaches, pecans and Vidalia onions in a few decades, yikes!
- cproctor 5y ago
  Actually, Niagara County is surprisingly temperate--warmer and much less snowy than Buffalo and the south towns. It's been famous for apples, pears, and stone fruit since the 19th century; we even have some vineyards. But yeah, maybe we'll add figs and bananas.
  - kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
    WNY isn't completely immune. A drought five years ago killed the corn crop. Long term stats are only updated every ten years and we only just switched over to data including 2010-2020.
  - paganel 5y ago
    > But yeah, maybe we'll add figs and bananas. Give it a few years. I live in Bucharest (Romania), located at ~45 Northern latitude, and I’ve first started seeing fig trees around here about 10 years ago. In the last few years I’ve started seeing more and more of them, so much so that I’ve started taking photos of almost all of them and I’m thinking of putting those photos on a map and exporting the geo-locations somewhere on GitHub in a .kml or geo-json file for other people to look at.
    - prawn 5y ago
      They grow like weeds in most places I've seen!
foobiekr 5y ago
How's the groundwater contamination? I was looking at Minnesota but the PFAS/... contamination is rampant, just terrible.
- cproctor 5y ago
  It's a concern, unfortunately. We read quite a bit about specific local issues before buying our house; our water is pretty good though I also installed a filter. Love Canal, where the Superfund program was born, is in Niagara Falls. In Tonawanda the army intentionally poured Manhattan Project leftovers into dispersed wells to hide the source... [1] And WNY was generally a center of late 19C/early 20C industry which generally left messes behind. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/01/nyregion/big-atom-waste-site-reported-found-near-buffalo.html https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/01/nyregion/big-atom-waste-s...

mikewarot 5y ago

Looks like you'll be growing peaches, pecans and Vidalia onions in a few decades, yikes!

cproctor 5y ago
Actually, Niagara County is surprisingly temperate--warmer and much less snowy than Buffalo and the south towns. It's been famous for apples, pears, and stone fruit since the 19th century; we even have some vineyards. But yeah, maybe we'll add figs and bananas.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
  WNY isn't completely immune. A drought five years ago killed the corn crop. Long term stats are only updated every ten years and we only just switched over to data including 2010-2020.
- paganel 5y ago
  > But yeah, maybe we'll add figs and bananas. Give it a few years. I live in Bucharest (Romania), located at ~45 Northern latitude, and I’ve first started seeing fig trees around here about 10 years ago. In the last few years I’ve started seeing more and more of them, so much so that I’ve started taking photos of almost all of them and I’m thinking of putting those photos on a map and exporting the geo-locations somewhere on GitHub in a .kml or geo-json file for other people to look at.
  - prawn 5y ago
    They grow like weeds in most places I've seen!

foobiekr 5y ago

How's the groundwater contamination? I was looking at Minnesota but the PFAS/... contamination is rampant, just terrible.

cproctor 5y ago
It's a concern, unfortunately. We read quite a bit about specific local issues before buying our house; our water is pretty good though I also installed a filter. Love Canal, where the Superfund program was born, is in Niagara Falls. In Tonawanda the army intentionally poured Manhattan Project leftovers into dispersed wells to hide the source... [1] And WNY was generally a center of late 19C/early 20C industry which generally left messes behind. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/01/nyregion/big-atom-waste-site-reported-found-near-buffalo.html https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/01/nyregion/big-atom-waste-s...