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Has the climate in Paragould changed?

How Paragould's climate has changed

About 0.1°F per decade, measured from Paragould's official daily weather records, 1980–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Paragould'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
2 fewer nights
1970s
67 / yr
Recent
65 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
about the same
1970s
60.3°F
Recent
60.4°F
Year-round temperature has barely moved
Hot days above 90°F
4 fewer days
1970s
58 / yr
Recent
54 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
22 more days
1970s
99 / yr
Recent
121 / yr
Wetter on average

Paragould's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1980 to 2025.

56°58°60°62°64°1980: 61.2°F1981: 57.8°F1982: 59.4°F1983: 58.6°F1984: 59.2°F1985: 59.5°F1986: 61.4°F1987: 61.3°F1988: 59.9°F1989: 59.8°F1990: 62.6°F1991: 62.0°F1992: 60.5°F1993: 59.9°F1994: 60.9°F1995: 61.0°F1996: 60.0°F1997: 60.2°F1998: 63.5°F1999: 62.7°F2000: 60.7°F2001: 60.9°F2002: 60.2°F2003: 59.0°F2004: 60.1°F2005: 61.3°F2006: 61.2°F2007: 61.4°F2008: 58.5°F2009: 59.0°F2010: 60.3°F2011: 60.1°F2012: 62.1°F2013: 58.0°F2014: 57.7°F2015: 59.7°F2016: 61.6°F2017: 61.2°F2018: 59.8°F2019: 59.9°F2020: 60.2°F2021: 60.6°F2022: 59.5°F2023: 62.1°F2024: 62.4°F2025: 61.7°Flong-term trend198019902000201020202025
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 5 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.

-2.5°-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°January: -0.9°F-0.9JFebruary: -2.2°F-2.2FMarch: -1.5°F-1.5MApril: -0.8°F-0.8AMay: -0.7°F-0.7MJune: -0.4°F-0.4JJuly: -1.1°F-1.1JAugust: -0.9°F-0.9ASeptember: -0.5°F-0.5SOctober: -0.8°F-0.8ONovember: -1.3°F-1.3NDecember: -0.5°F-0.5D

February has cooled the most — about 2.2°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 Paragould 1S (NOAA GHCN station USC00035563), about 3 km from the city centre.

How we build these numbers →