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Has the climate in Elizabethtown changed?

Elizabethtown has warmed about 1.4°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Elizabethtown's official daily weather records, 1991–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Elizabethtown's warming is broadly in line with other cities in United States — 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
+1.4°F
1970s
55.8°F
Recent
57.1°F
A steady upward drift

Elizabethtown's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

52°54°56°58°60°1991: 58.5°F1992: 55.4°F1993: 53.9°F1994: 54.9°F1995: 55.1°F1996: 53.9°F1997: 54.3°F1998: 58.2°F1999: 57.8°F2005: 57.9°F2006: 57.6°F2007: 58.7°F2008: 56.0°F2009: 56.1°F2010: 57.1°F2011: 57.7°F2012: 58.6°F2013: 55.0°F2014: 54.0°F2015: 56.4°F2016: 57.5°F2017: 57.5°F2018: 56.5°F2019: 57.1°F2020: 56.7°F2021: 56.6°F2022: 55.7°F2023: 57.7°F2024: 59.0°Flong-term trend1991201020202024
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 25 years of daily observations at Godman Aaf Airport, a weather station, about 25 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →