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Has the climate in Druzhkivka changed?

Druzhkivka has warmed about 3.3°F between 1971 and 2013.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Druzhkivka's official daily weather records, 1971–2013. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Druzhkivka's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Ukraine — 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
3 more nights
1970s
80 / yr
Recent
83 / yr
Colder winters — more frosts
Average temperature
+1.9°F
1970s
46.2°F
Recent
48.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
9 more days
1970s
4 / yr
Recent
13 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
41 fewer days
1970s
119 / yr
Recent
78 / yr
Drier on average

Druzhkivka's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2013.

40°42°44°46°48°50°52°1971: 41.9°F1973: 46.0°F1974: 47.0°F1975: 49.3°F1976: 43.4°F1977: 45.4°F1978: 45.2°F1979: 47.9°F1980: 44.9°F1981: 48.9°F1982: 45.9°F1983: 47.9°F1984: 46.7°F1985: 44.3°F1986: 46.8°F1987: 42.2°F1988: 45.5°F1989: 48.8°F1990: 48.4°F1991: 47.4°F1992: 45.8°F1993: 44.5°F1994: 46.7°F1995: 48.1°F1996: 46.4°F1997: 44.8°F1998: 47.8°F1999: 49.7°F2000: 48.2°F2001: 47.9°F2002: 50.7°F2003: 46.2°F2004: 47.7°F2005: 45.5°F2006: 45.9°F2007: 47.0°F2009: 48.2°F2010: 50.9°F2011: 47.2°F2012: 49.5°F2013: 50.3°Flong-term trend197119801990200020102013
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 6 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.

-3.5°-3.0°-2.5°-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°January: -3.1°F-3.1JFebruary: -2.9°F-2.9FMarch: -1.2°F-1.2MApril: -2.6°F-2.6AMay: +1.6°F+1.6MJune: +1.2°F+1.2JJuly: +1.9°F+1.9JAugust: +2.9°F+2.9ASeptember: +0.0°F+0.0SOctober: -0.3°F-0.3ONovember: -1.5°F-1.5NDecember: -3.4°F-3.4D

December has cooled the most — about 3.4°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

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.

How we build these numbers →