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Has the climate in Lawton changed?

Lawton has warmed about 1.6°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Lawton's official daily weather records, 1991–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Lawton's warming is broadly in line with other cities in United States — 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
+1.3°F
1970s
62.0°F
Recent
63.3°F
A steady upward drift

Lawton's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

59°61°63°65°67°69°1991: 61.6°F1992: 61.2°F1993: 60.3°F1994: 61.4°F1995: 61.4°F1996: 61.2°F1997: 61.0°F1998: 65.1°F1999: 64.5°F2007: 63.5°F2008: 61.7°F2009: 61.7°F2010: 62.2°F2011: 65.0°F2012: 65.0°F2013: 61.2°F2014: 61.4°F2015: 62.4°F2016: 63.6°F2017: 63.1°F2018: 62.1°F2019: 61.6°F2020: 62.2°F2021: 62.5°F2022: 62.8°F2023: 63.7°F2024: 67.6°Flong-term trend1991201020202024
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 Henry Post Aaf Airport, a weather station, about 5 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →