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Has the climate in Clarence-Rockland changed?

Clarence-Rockland has warmed about 2.2°F between 1971 and 2020.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Clarence-Rockland's official daily weather records, 1971–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Clarence-Rockland's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Canada — 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
+1.8°F
1970s
41.0°F
Recent
42.8°F
A steady upward drift

Clarence-Rockland's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2020.

29°31°33°35°37°39°41°43°45°47°1971: 40.5°F1972: 39.2°F1973: 43.2°F1974: 40.3°F1975: 42.1°F1976: 39.3°F1977: 41.7°F1978: 39.8°F1979: 41.8°F1980: 40.1°F1981: 42.6°F1982: 40.7°F1983: 41.8°F1984: 41.1°F1985: 40.2°F1986: 41.1°F1987: 42.4°F1988: 41.1°F1989: 38.8°F1990: 41.9°F1991: 41.9°F1992: 38.5°F1993: 39.1°F1994: 39.4°F1995: 40.9°F1996: 40.6°F1997: 39.3°F1998: 44.4°F1999: 43.1°F2000: 40.6°F2001: 42.9°F2002: 41.7°F2003: 39.8°F2004: 39.7°F2005: 42.1°F2006: 44.0°F2007: 41.3°F2008: 41.2°F2009: 41.0°F2010: 45.6°F2011: 44.8°F2012: 46.0°F2013: 44.6°F2014: 44.1°F2015: 46.3°F2016: 42.6°F2017: 43.0°F2018: 42.6°F2019: 30.4°F2020: 44.6°Flong-term trend197119801990200020102020
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.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°+3.5°January: +1.8°F+1.8JFebruary: +1.0°F+1.0FMarch: +0.6°F+0.6MApril: -0.0°F-0.0AMay: +0.1°F+0.1MJune: +0.6°F+0.6JJuly: +0.4°F+0.4JAugust: +0.8°F+0.8ASeptember: +1.8°F+1.8SOctober: +1.1°F+1.1ONovember: +0.8°F+0.8NDecember: +3.1°F+3.1D

December has warmed the most — about 3.1°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 29 years of daily observations at Angers, a weather station, about 20 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →