These updated cold-season trends are part of a world-wide phenomenon that we've written about here on the blog before: globally, all things being equal, cold things are warming faster than already-warm things.
Rate of Temperature Change During last 50 years That’s considerably warmer than the national average for the cold season, and even more so when compared to the national year-round rate of warming over the last 50 years.īut even that is nothing compared to Alaska, which has warmed by nearly 5.0F over the last 50 years-an astonishing clip of 10 degrees per century. Over the last 50 years, the cold season has warmed by 3.5F (neighboring New Mexico, by 3.4F). Temperature percentiles (defined here) for the 2017/18 cold season, which begins in October and lasts through March.īut the recent trend in Arizona’s cold season temperature may be even more striking than this one year's anomaly.
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