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Has the climate in Baddeck changed?

How Baddeck's climate has changed

About 0.2°F per decade, measured from Baddeck's official daily weather records, 1990–2013. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Baddeck'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
+0.6°F
1970s
43.3°F
Recent
43.9°F
A steady upward drift

Baddeck's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1990 to 2013.

32°34°36°38°40°42°44°46°48°1990: 44.2°F1991: 43.4°F1992: 42.3°F1993: 42.3°F1994: 43.0°F1995: 44.5°F1996: 44.4°F1997: 42.2°F1998: 46.8°F1999: 47.1°F2000: 44.9°F2001: 45.0°F2002: 44.2°F2003: 40.0°F2004: 43.9°F2005: 45.4°F2006: 46.2°F2007: 44.2°F2008: 44.3°F2009: 43.9°F2010: 47.0°F2011: 45.1°F2012: 47.0°F2013: 33.3°Flong-term trend1990200020102013
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 22 years of daily observations at Point Aconi, a weather station, about 40 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →