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Has the climate in Misratah changed?

Misratah has warmed about 2.5°F between 1981 and 2024.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Misratah's official daily weather records, 1981–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Misratah's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Libya — 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
+2.1°F
1970s
68.5°F
Recent
70.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
17 more days
1970s
29 / yr
Recent
46 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
8 more days
1970s
25 / yr
Recent
33 / yr
Wetter on average

Misratah's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1981 to 2024.

66°68°70°72°1981: 69.0°F1982: 68.6°F1983: 67.5°F1984: 67.5°F1985: 68.4°F1986: 67.7°F1987: 68.9°F1988: 68.0°F1989: 69.2°F1990: 70.6°F1991: 67.8°F1992: 67.8°F1993: 68.7°F1994: 68.6°F1995: 69.1°F1996: 69.0°F1997: 68.9°F1998: 69.1°F1999: 70.4°F2000: 69.4°F2001: 70.2°F2005: 69.2°F2006: 70.1°F2007: 69.8°F2008: 70.4°F2009: 69.9°F2010: 71.1°F2013: 69.8°F2021: 71.7°F2022: 71.1°F2023: 71.0°F2024: 71.6°Flong-term trend19811990200020102024
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 5 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°+2.5°January: +1.5°F+1.5JFebruary: +2.0°F+2.0FMarch: +1.5°F+1.5MApril: +0.9°F+0.9AMay: +1.5°F+1.5MJune: +1.3°F+1.3JJuly: +2.0°F+2.0JAugust: +1.3°F+1.3ASeptember: +1.6°F+1.6SOctober: +1.3°F+1.3ONovember: +1.6°F+1.6NDecember: +1.6°F+1.6D

February has warmed the most — about 2.1°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 21 years of daily observations at Misurata, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →