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Has the climate in Rio Claro changed?

How Rio Claro's climate has changed

About 0.0°F per decade, measured from Rio Claro's official daily weather records, 2005–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Rio Claro's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Trinidad and Tobago.

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.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
about the same
1970s
80.6°F
Recent
80.6°F
Year-round temperature has barely moved
Hot days above 90°F
19 fewer days
1970s
212 / yr
Recent
193 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
7 more days
1970s
171 / yr
Recent
178 / yr
Wetter on average

Rio Claro's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2005 to 2024.

78°80°82°2005: 80.8°F2006: 80.1°F2007: 80.0°F2008: 80.4°F2009: 81.0°F2010: 81.6°F2011: 80.8°F2012: 80.9°F2013: 81.1°F2015: 81.1°F2016: 81.3°F2017: 80.6°F2018: 79.9°F2019: 80.7°F2020: 80.6°F2021: 80.1°F2022: 79.8°F2023: 80.8°F2024: 81.8°Flong-term trend2005201020202024
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 — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

How we build these numbers →