Climate Matters•February 2, 2016•Reuse this content
Warming Since the First Superbowl
STILLS
TITLE: JPG • PNG
NO TITLE: JPG • PNG
ANIMATIONS
TITLE: MOV • MP4
NO TITLE: MOV • MP4
In anticipation of the 50th Super Bowl, we examined football season (Sep-Dec) temperature trends in NFL cities over the past 50 years. Not surprisingly, all of those cities have warmed over that time. Charlotte has warmed 1.3° F, and Denver has warmed 1.1°F. But there is a wide range in the warming trends across the league, with Phoenix warming 5.1°F since the first Super Bowl, and San Diego only warming 0.1°F. The San Francisco Bay Area, where this year’s game is being played, is very close to the middle, warming 2.5°F. These temperature changes are calculated based on the rate of change calculated over those 50 years.
Climate Matters © 2016 by Climate Central is licensed under CC BY 4.0
This license grants permission to use, distribute, and reproduce all text, graphics, and multimedia content published on this page in any medium, provided that Climate Central is credited per the CC BY 4.0 license.
Permission to use data and other materials published on this page is granted for non-commercial uses, commercial news purposes, and educational purposes as governed by Climate Central's Terms of Use.