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Has the climate in Ţarţūs changed?

Ţarţūs has warmed about 2.3°F between 1991 and 2013.

About 1.0°F per decade, measured from Ţarţūs's official daily weather records, 1991–2013. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Ţarţūs's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Syria — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.

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
+1.9°F
1970s
64.4°F
Recent
66.3°F
A steady upward drift

Ţarţūs's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2013.

61°63°65°67°69°1991: 64.7°F1992: 62.3°F1993: 64.6°F1994: 65.5°F1995: 64.9°F1996: 65.0°F1997: 64.0°F1998: 66.0°F1999: 66.1°F2000: 65.1°F2001: 66.2°F2002: 65.8°F2003: 65.2°F2004: 65.4°F2005: 64.5°F2006: 64.4°F2007: 65.5°F2008: 65.7°F2009: 65.8°F2010: 68.4°F2011: 64.5°F2012: 66.4°F2013: 67.6°Flong-term trend1991200020102013
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 — 1991–2020 normals computed from 25 years of daily observations at Safita, a weather station, about 24 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →