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Has the climate in Williston changed?

Williston has warmed about 1.6°F between 1991 and 2018.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Williston's official daily weather records, 1991–2018. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Williston'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
+1.1°F
1970s
41.8°F
Recent
42.9°F
A steady upward drift

Williston's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1991 to 2018.

36°38°40°42°44°46°48°1991: 44.2°F1992: 42.9°F1993: 39.7°F1994: 41.3°F1995: 41.0°F1996: 37.8°F1997: 42.0°F1998: 43.7°F1999: 43.6°F2000: 41.6°F2001: 42.9°F2002: 40.4°F2003: 40.9°F2004: 41.1°F2005: 43.5°F2006: 44.7°F2007: 43.4°F2008: 41.1°F2009: 39.4°F2010: 41.4°F2011: 41.8°F2012: 44.4°F2013: 40.1°F2014: 41.1°F2015: 45.1°F2016: 46.4°F2017: 44.0°F2018: 41.5°Flong-term trend1991200020102018
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 29 years of daily observations at Sloulin Field International Airport, a weather station, about 3 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →