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Has the climate in Panevėžys changed?

Panevėžys has warmed about 2.6°F between 1971 and 2009.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Panevėžys's official daily weather records, 1971–2009. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Panevėžys's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Lithuania.

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
13 fewer nights
1970s
134 / yr
Recent
121 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.8°F
1970s
43.4°F
Recent
45.2°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
1 more day
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
1 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
8 fewer days
1970s
175 / yr
Recent
167 / yr
Drier on average

Panevėžys's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2009.

39°41°43°45°47°49°1971: 44.4°F1972: 44.5°F1973: 43.9°F1974: 44.2°F1975: 46.4°F1976: 40.8°F1977: 42.8°F1978: 41.7°F1979: 41.9°F1980: 40.9°F1981: 43.2°F1982: 44.0°F1983: 45.4°F1984: 43.7°F1985: 40.6°F1986: 42.7°F1987: 40.2°F1988: 43.8°F1989: 46.6°F1990: 46.3°F1991: 44.6°F1992: 45.6°F1993: 43.1°F1994: 44.1°F1995: 44.3°F1996: 41.0°F1997: 44.0°F1998: 43.7°F1999: 45.7°F2000: 46.4°F2001: 44.8°F2002: 45.5°F2003: 44.3°F2004: 43.9°F2005: 44.9°F2006: 46.0°F2007: 46.4°F2008: 47.1°F2009: 45.1°Flong-term trend19711980199020002009
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 4 fewer freezing nights a year 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°+2.5°January: +2.3°F+2.3JFebruary: +1.2°F+1.2FMarch: +1.0°F+1.0MApril: +1.9°F+1.9AMay: +0.3°F+0.3MJune: +0.1°F+0.1JJuly: +1.9°F+1.9JAugust: +1.5°F+1.5ASeptember: +1.4°F+1.4SOctober: +0.2°F+0.2ONovember: +0.3°F+0.3NDecember: +0.6°F+0.6D

January has warmed the most — about 2.3°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 19 years of daily observations at Siauliai, a weather station, about 69 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →