About 0.1°F per decade, measured from Enid's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.
Is that a lot? Enid'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 more night
1970s
79 / yr
→
Recent
80 / yr
Colder winters — more frosts
Average temperature
about the same
1970s
60.1°F
→
Recent
60.0°F
Year-round temperature has barely moved
Hot days above 90°F
6 fewer days
1970s
81 / yr
→
Recent
75 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
4 fewer days
1970s
78 / yr
→
Recent
74 / yr
Drier on average
Enid's temperature, year by year
Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.
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 4 more freezing nights a year 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.
April has cooled the most — about 1.4°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.
Methodology & sources
Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from NOAA's U.S. Climate Normals, measured at Enid (NOAA GHCN station USC00342912), about 3 km from the city centre.