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Has the climate in Jeffersontown changed?

Jeffersontown has warmed about 1°F since 2001.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Jeffersontown's official daily weather records, 2001–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Jeffersontown'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
2 fewer nights
1970s
80 / yr
Recent
78 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+0.7°F
1970s
57.7°F
Recent
58.4°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
4 more days
1970s
35 / yr
Recent
39 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
131 / yr
Recent
132 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Jeffersontown's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2001 to 2025.

54°56°58°60°62°2001: 57.6°F2002: 58.8°F2003: 55.6°F2004: 57.1°F2005: 58.3°F2006: 58.4°F2007: 59.5°F2008: 56.6°F2009: 56.8°F2010: 58.0°F2011: 58.8°F2012: 60.5°F2013: 56.4°F2014: 56.1°F2015: 58.1°F2016: 59.6°F2017: 59.4°F2018: 58.9°F2019: 58.5°F2020: 58.6°F2021: 58.8°F2022: 57.7°F2023: 58.3°F2024: 59.1°F2025: 57.4°Flong-term trend2001201020202025
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 33 more freezing nights a year and about 35 more days above 90°F 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.

-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°+3.5°+4.0°+4.5°+5.0°+5.5°+6.0°+6.5°+7.0°+7.5°+8.0°+8.5°+9.0°+9.5°+10.0°+10.5°+11.0°+11.5°+12.0°+12.5°+13.0°January: +5.9°F+5.9JFebruary: +5.7°F+5.7FMarch: +5.0°F+5.0MApril: +6.3°F+6.3AMay: +5.6°F+5.6MJune: +5.1°F+5.1JJuly: +4.3°F+4.3JAugust: +4.7°F+4.7ASeptember: +3.7°F+3.7SOctober: -1.7°F-1.7ONovember: +3.0°F+3.0NDecember: +12.6°F+12.6D

December has warmed the most — about 12.6°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 Louisville Bowman Fld (NOAA GHCN station USW00013810), about 10 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →