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Has the climate in Norfolk County changed?

Norfolk County has cooled about 2.1°F between 1997 and 2020.

About 0.9°F per decade, measured from Norfolk County's official daily weather records, 1997–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Norfolk County's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Canada.

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
−1.5°F
1970s
48.5°F
Recent
47.0°F
A small downward drift

Norfolk County's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1997 to 2020.

42°44°46°48°50°52°54°1997: 53.1°F1998: 50.3°F1999: 48.1°F2000: 46.7°F2001: 48.9°F2002: 48.4°F2003: 45.9°F2004: 46.4°F2005: 46.6°F2006: 48.6°F2007: 46.9°F2008: 46.2°F2009: 45.6°F2010: 48.1°F2011: 47.5°F2012: 49.9°F2013: 46.0°F2014: 43.9°F2015: 46.4°F2016: 48.7°F2017: 48.1°F2018: 48.3°F2019: 46.3°F2020: 48.5°Flong-term trend1997200020102020
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.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 23 years of daily observations at Delhi CS, a weather station, about 14 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →