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Has the climate in Greenburgh changed?

Greenburgh has warmed about 2.2°F between 1971 and 2021.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Greenburgh's official daily weather records, 1971–2021. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Greenburgh'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.

Freezing nights
19 fewer nights
1970s
132 / yr
Recent
113 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+1.8°F
1970s
51.1°F
Recent
52.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
5 more days
1970s
14 / yr
Recent
19 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
35 fewer days
1970s
127 / yr
Recent
92 / yr
Drier on average

Greenburgh's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2021.

48°50°52°54°56°1971: 50.7°F1972: 49.7°F1973: 52.3°F1974: 50.8°F1975: 51.5°F1976: 49.9°F1977: 50.7°F1978: 50.3°F1979: 51.8°F1980: 51.4°F1981: 51.2°F1982: 50.7°F1983: 52.1°F1984: 51.6°F1985: 51.5°F1986: 51.7°F1987: 51.9°F1988: 51.3°F1989: 51.1°F1990: 53.8°F1991: 53.8°F1992: 52.7°F1993: 51.8°F1994: 51.9°F1995: 52.0°F1996: 51.3°F1997: 51.6°F1998: 54.2°F1999: 53.4°F2000: 51.7°F2001: 53.1°F2002: 53.6°F2003: 52.7°F2004: 52.6°F2013: 52.0°F2014: 51.0°F2015: 52.3°F2016: 54.2°F2017: 53.8°F2019: 52.6°F2020: 52.4°F2021: 55.0°Flong-term trend197119801990200020202021
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 26 fewer 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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°January: +1.4°F+1.4JFebruary: +1.0°F+1.0FMarch: +0.2°F+0.2MApril: +1.3°F+1.3AMay: +1.1°F+1.1MJune: +0.8°F+0.8JJuly: +1.1°F+1.1JAugust: +1.1°F+1.1ASeptember: +1.6°F+1.6SOctober: +1.2°F+1.2ONovember: +0.5°F+0.5NDecember: +1.2°F+1.2D

September has warmed the most — about 1.6°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 Stamford 5 N (NOAA GHCN station USC00067970), about 27 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →