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Has the climate in Garden City changed?
Garden City has warmed about 4.1°F since 1971.
About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Garden City'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.
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.
Garden City's temperature, year by year
Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.
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 fewer freezing nights a year and about 7 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.
Methodology & sources
Temperature — the official 1991–2020 climate normals from NOAA's U.S. Climate Normals, measured at Laguardia AP (NOAA GHCN station USW00014732), about 22 km from the city centre.