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Has the climate in Salina changed?

Salina has warmed about 1.8°F between 1991 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Salina'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? Salina'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
55.9°F
Recent
57.2°F
A steady upward drift

Salina's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2024.

52°54°56°58°60°1991: 57.3°F1992: 55.5°F1993: 53.2°F1994: 56.4°F1995: 55.2°F1996: 54.2°F1997: 55.0°F1998: 57.6°F1999: 56.9°F2000: 56.4°F2001: 57.1°F2002: 56.3°F2003: 56.7°F2004: 57.1°F2005: 57.2°F2006: 58.8°F2007: 56.2°F2008: 53.9°F2009: 54.2°F2010: 56.0°F2011: 56.0°F2012: 59.6°F2013: 54.9°F2014: 55.5°F2015: 58.0°F2016: 59.4°F2017: 59.3°F2018: 56.1°F2019: 54.7°F2020: 56.3°F2021: 57.4°F2022: 56.3°F2023: 57.7°F2024: 58.4°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 Salina Municipal Airport, a weather station, about 7 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →