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Has the climate in White Rock changed?

White Rock has warmed about 1.1°F between 1993 and 2020.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from White Rock's official daily weather records, 1993–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? White Rock'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
+0.9°F
1970s
51.4°F
Recent
52.3°F
A steady upward drift

White Rock's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1993 to 2020.

48°50°52°54°1993: 49.7°F1994: 52.1°F1995: 52.6°F1996: 50.1°F1997: 52.4°F1998: 52.8°F1999: 51.1°F2000: 50.9°F2001: 51.2°F2002: 50.8°F2003: 52.4°F2004: 52.9°F2005: 52.2°F2006: 51.7°F2007: 51.0°F2008: 50.8°F2009: 51.3°F2010: 52.4°F2011: 50.7°F2012: 51.3°F2013: 51.6°F2014: 52.8°F2015: 53.6°F2016: 53.3°F2017: 51.2°F2018: 52.0°F2019: 51.8°F2020: 53.1°Flong-term trend1993200020102020
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 27 years of daily observations at White Rock Campbell Scientific, a weather station, about 1 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →