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Has the climate in Mossoró changed?

Mossoró has warmed about 2.5°F between 1998 and 2024.

About 1.2°F per decade, measured from Mossoró's official daily weather records, 1998–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Mossoró's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Brazil.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Average temperature
+2.1°F
1970s
87.3°F
Recent
89.4°F
A steady upward drift

Mossoró's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1998 to 2024.

83°85°87°89°91°1998: 88.1°F1999: 86.4°F2000: 85.0°F2001: 86.3°F2008: 88.0°F2009: 87.3°F2010: 89.9°F2011: 87.6°F2012: 89.5°F2013: 89.2°F2014: 88.8°F2015: 89.0°F2016: 89.6°F2017: 89.9°F2018: 90.3°F2019: 89.8°F2020: 90.1°F2021: 90.9°F2022: 89.1°F2023: 90.1°F2024: 85.2°Flong-term trend19982000201020202024
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from INMET, Brazil's national meteorological institute, measured at Jaguaruana, about 65 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →