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Has the climate in Ayoun El Atrous changed?

How Ayoun El Atrous's climate has changed

About 0.2°F per decade, measured from Ayoun El Atrous's official daily weather records, 1994–2016. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Ayoun El Atrous's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Mauritania — 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
−0.3°F
1970s
88.6°F
Recent
88.3°F
A small downward drift

Ayoun El Atrous's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1994 to 2016.

86°88°90°92°1994: 87.5°F1995: 88.9°F2009: 89.5°F2010: 91.8°F2011: 91.0°F2012: 87.3°F2013: 89.1°F2014: 87.9°F2015: 88.4°F2016: 88.6°Flong-term trend199420102016
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 17 years of daily observations at Kiffa, a weather station, about 191 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →