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Has the climate in New Berlin changed?

New Berlin has warmed about 0.8°F between 1971 and 2018.

About 0.2°F per decade, measured from New Berlin's official daily weather records, 1971–2018. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? New Berlin'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
135 / yr
Recent
136 / yr
Colder winters — more frosts
Average temperature
+0.5°F
1970s
48.2°F
Recent
48.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
4 fewer days
1970s
17 / yr
Recent
13 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
14 more days
1970s
107 / yr
Recent
121 / yr
Wetter on average

New Berlin's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2018.

43°45°47°49°51°53°1971: 48.1°F1972: 45.7°F1973: 50.1°F1974: 48.2°F1975: 49.1°F1976: 47.5°F1977: 48.8°F1978: 46.9°F1979: 46.6°F1980: 48.1°F1981: 48.9°F1982: 47.7°F1983: 49.3°F1984: 49.1°F1985: 48.4°F1986: 49.5°F1987: 51.7°F1988: 50.2°F1989: 47.8°F1990: 51.2°F1991: 50.6°F1992: 48.4°F1993: 48.5°F1994: 49.4°F1995: 49.3°F1996: 46.9°F1997: 48.4°F1998: 51.0°F1999: 50.5°F2000: 49.0°F2001: 50.5°F2002: 49.6°F2003: 47.8°F2004: 48.2°F2005: 49.4°F2006: 50.2°F2007: 49.4°F2008: 46.7°F2009: 47.1°F2010: 50.2°F2011: 48.6°F2012: 51.9°F2013: 46.4°F2014: 44.9°F2015: 48.6°F2016: 51.1°F2017: 50.4°F2018: 48.3°Flong-term trend197119801990200020102018
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 3 fewer freezing nights a year and about 3 fewer 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.

-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°January: +1.0°F+1.0JFebruary: -0.9°F-0.9FMarch: -0.8°F-0.8MApril: -1.2°F-1.2AMay: -1.4°F-1.4MJune: -0.8°F-0.8JJuly: -0.8°F-0.8JAugust: -0.8°F-0.8ASeptember: -0.5°F-0.5SOctober: -0.8°F-0.8ONovember: -0.1°F-0.1NDecember: +1.4°F+1.4D

May has cooled the most — about 1.5°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 MT Mary College (NOAA GHCN station USC00475474), about 12 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →