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Has the climate in Norfolk changed?

Norfolk has warmed about 2°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Norfolk's official daily weather records, 1991–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Norfolk'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.

Average temperature
+1.3°F
1970s
49.3°F
Recent
50.6°F
A steady upward drift

Norfolk's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

44°46°48°50°52°54°1991: 50.7°F1992: 49.5°F1993: 47.0°F1994: 49.5°F1995: 49.3°F1996: 45.7°F1997: 48.4°F1998: 50.9°F1999: 50.9°F2000: 50.1°F2001: 50.6°F2002: 50.5°F2003: 50.0°F2004: 50.6°F2005: 51.7°F2006: 52.0°F2007: 50.4°F2008: 47.3°F2009: 47.7°F2010: 49.2°F2011: 49.2°F2012: 53.5°F2013: 48.3°F2014: 48.4°F2015: 51.6°F2016: 51.6°F2017: 50.5°F2018: 48.0°F2019: 48.0°F2020: 51.0°F2021: 52.1°F2022: 50.6°F2023: 52.1°F2024: 52.8°Flong-term trend19912000201020202024
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.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Karl Stefan Memorial Airport, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →