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Has the climate in Al ‘Amārah changed?

Al ‘Amārah has warmed about 3.5°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 1.1°F per decade, measured from Al ‘Amārah'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? Al ‘Amārah's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Iraq — 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
+2.3°F
1970s
78.5°F
Recent
80.8°F
A steady upward drift

Al ‘Amārah's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

74°76°78°80°82°84°1991: 78.8°F1992: 75.3°F1993: 77.4°F1994: 78.9°F1995: 77.3°F1996: 79.2°F1997: 77.3°F1999: 80.3°F2000: 79.5°F2001: 80.2°F2002: 79.2°F2003: 79.4°F2004: 79.0°F2005: 78.9°F2006: 79.5°F2007: 79.3°F2008: 79.5°F2009: 79.6°F2010: 81.1°F2011: 79.0°F2012: 79.6°F2013: 78.6°F2014: 79.5°F2015: 80.4°F2016: 80.1°F2017: 81.1°F2018: 81.4°F2019: 80.1°F2020: 80.2°F2021: 82.4°F2022: 81.3°F2023: 80.9°F2024: 81.3°Flong-term trend19912000201020202024
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 29 years of daily observations at Ahwaz, a weather station, about 163 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →