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Has the climate in Santa Maria changed?
Santa Maria has cooled about 0.8°F between 1997 and 2024.
About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Santa Maria's official daily weather records, 1997–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.
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.
Santa Maria's temperature, year by year
Average temperature for each year from 1997 to 2024.
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 Santa Maria, about 9 km from the city centre.