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Has the climate in Big Spring changed?

Big Spring has cooled about 0.9°F since 2012.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Big Spring's official daily weather records, 2012–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Big Spring's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in United States.

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
1 fewer night
1970s
38 / yr
Recent
37 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
about the same
1970s
67.0°F
Recent
66.9°F
Year-round temperature has barely moved
Hot days above 90°F
9 fewer days
1970s
128 / yr
Recent
119 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
41 / yr
Recent
40 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Big Spring's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2012 to 2025.

63°65°67°69°71°2012: 68.8°F2013: 66.4°F2014: 66.4°F2015: 66.4°F2016: 68.2°F2017: 70.1°F2018: 69.8°F2019: 64.7°F2020: 67.1°F2021: 65.8°F2022: 66.4°F2023: 65.1°F2024: 68.5°F2025: 67.7°Flong-term trend201220202025
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 — 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 →