AUSTIN (KXAN) — I will admit to autumn being my favorite season, just ahead of early spring. Autumn is the time many of us look forward to because we start to lose the heat of the sweltering summer, and we can finally get back to wearing sweaters that many of us love so much.

Unfortunately, according to our media partners at Climate Central, fall weather has been delayed in many parts of the United States as warming has progressively happened in the last 50+ years.

Statistics show that since 1970, every single county in the Lower 48 has experienced warming. It's been fastest in the Southwest United States.

The numbers reflect that 237 cities have seen increasing warmth by an average of 2.8° between 1970 and 2024. It's an average of 3.0° for more than 100 of those 237.

Several parts of

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