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Has the climate in Bathsheba changed?

Bathsheba has warmed about 1.2°F between 1973 and 2004.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Bathsheba's official daily weather records, 1973–2004. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Bathsheba's warming is broadly in line with other cities across North America — 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.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+0.8°F
1970s
80.2°F
Recent
81.0°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
5 more days
1970s
3 / yr
Recent
8 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
152 more days
1970s
45 / yr
Recent
197 / yr
Wetter on average

Bathsheba's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2004.

78°80°82°1973: 80.2°F1974: 79.8°F1975: 79.6°F1976: 79.4°F1977: 80.4°F1978: 80.8°F1979: 80.8°F1980: 80.8°F1981: 80.4°F1982: 79.8°F1983: 79.8°F1984: 79.3°F1985: 79.3°F1987: 80.9°F1988: 80.3°F1989: 80.2°F1990: 80.4°F1991: 80.6°F1992: 80.2°F1993: 80.7°F1994: 80.4°F1995: 81.2°F1996: 80.9°F1997: 80.8°F1998: 81.5°F1999: 80.6°F2000: 80.2°F2001: 80.7°F2002: 81.2°F2003: 81.3°F2004: 81.3°Flong-term trend19731980199020002004
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.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 3 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°January: +1.4°F+1.4JFebruary: +0.5°F+0.5FMarch: +0.6°F+0.6MApril: +0.9°F+0.9AMay: +0.6°F+0.6MJune: +0.4°F+0.4JJuly: +0.4°F+0.4JAugust: +0.9°F+0.9ASeptember: +0.9°F+0.9SOctober: +0.6°F+0.6ONovember: +0.8°F+0.8NDecember: +1.7°F+1.7D

December has warmed the most — about 1.7°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 11 years of daily observations at Grantley Adams, a weather station, about 17 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →