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Has the climate in Utrik changed?
How Utrik's climate has changed
Based on long-term climate records. Year-to-year weather always varies; what this page shows is the longer-term shift underneath it.
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
Hot days above 90°F
155 more days
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
155 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
17 fewer days
1970s
172 / yr
Recent
155 / yr
Drier on average
In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 39 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.
Methodology & sources
Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.