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Has the climate in Ihosy changed?

Ihosy has warmed about 1°F between 1978 and 2022.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Ihosy's official daily weather records, 1978–2022. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Ihosy's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Madagascar.

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
+1.1°F
1970s
65.9°F
Recent
67.0°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
8 more days
1970s
2 / yr
Recent
10 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
28 more days
1970s
95 / yr
Recent
123 / yr
Wetter on average

Ihosy's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1978 to 2022.

64°66°68°70°1978: 66.4°F1979: 65.8°F1980: 65.6°F1986: 65.3°F1987: 67.0°F1989: 65.3°F1993: 65.2°F1995: 66.9°F1999: 67.2°F2001: 67.5°F2002: 66.7°F2003: 66.6°F2004: 65.9°F2007: 67.6°F2010: 68.2°F2011: 68.6°F2012: 67.3°F2013: 66.4°F2014: 67.2°F2015: 66.7°F2018: 66.6°F2019: 67.9°F2020: 66.8°F2021: 67.6°F2022: 66.9°Flong-term trend19781980201020202022
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°+2.5°January: +1.0°F+1.0JFebruary: +0.6°F+0.6FMarch: +1.3°F+1.3MApril: +0.9°F+0.9AMay: +0.9°F+0.9MJune: +1.1°F+1.1JJuly: +2.2°F+2.2JAugust: +2.5°F+2.5ASeptember: +0.9°F+0.9SOctober: +1.2°F+1.2ONovember: +2.0°F+2.0NDecember: +0.2°F+0.2D

August has warmed the most — about 2.5°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 22 years of daily observations at Fianarantsoa, a weather station, about 148 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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