Study analyses climate change in Banjaluka. It provides understanding of
long-term trends (1961-2022) and shifts between last two standard
thirty-year climatological periods: 1961-1990 and 1991-2020. Results showed
significant warming; mean, maximum and minimum air temperatures displayed
significant upward trends, at the annual level (0.51?C/10yr, 0.63?C/10yr,
and 0.50?C/10yr, respectively) and in all seasons (strongest in summer;
0.68?C/10yr, 0.80?C/10yr, and 0.64?C/10yr, respectively). Emergence of heat
extremes was apparent in last decades. Highest magnitude of trends was
obtained for TXx (0.73?C/10yr), TN90p (14.8 days/10yr), TX90 (12.4
days/10yr), SU25 (7.6 days/10yr), TX30 (7.1 days/10yr), WSDI (4.8
days/10yr). Changes in precipitation were mainly insignificant, however
suggest redistribution of precipitation within the year (decrease in summer
season and increase in autumn), increasing precipitation intensity and
drying tendency (particularly in summer).