👴👵 Will Extreme Weather Impact Your Retirement Haven? (AARP Article)

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Top Retirement Havens Threatened by Extreme Weather.

Metro areas with the fastest-growing retiree populations prone to heat waves, hurricanes, floods.

By Jon Marcus, AARP. Published August 19, 2024.

Phoenix was plenty hot enough for Tim Mead when he was growing up there. “That’s why I joined the Navy,” he jokes. “To get out of the desert.”

When he retired from the service 20 years later, Mead and his wife decided to return to Arizona. But they bypassed his old hometown, where the average daily high temperature in July was above 112 degrees, according to National Weather Service data — more than 8 degrees hotter than in 1986, when he left. Instead, they settled in Flagstaff, where the 7,000-foot elevation kept the average daily high in July 2024 to a more tolerable 87.

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