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Has the climate in Baie-Comeau changed?

Baie-Comeau has cooled about 20.3°F between 1973 and 2020.

About 4.2°F per decade, measured from Baie-Comeau's official daily weather records, 1973–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Baie-Comeau'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
−15.3°F
1970s
52.7°F
Recent
37.4°F
A small downward drift

Baie-Comeau's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2020.

27°29°31°33°35°37°39°41°43°45°47°49°51°53°55°57°1973: 55.6°F1974: 50.6°F1975: 53.8°F1976: 52.1°F1977: 52.3°F1978: 52.1°F1979: 53.7°F1980: 52.0°F1981: 52.9°F1982: 51.8°F1983: 53.3°F1984: 52.9°F1985: 52.8°F1986: 51.2°F1987: 53.7°F1988: 52.6°F1989: 34.8°F1990: 36.6°F1991: 36.5°F1992: 32.0°F1993: 33.3°F1994: 36.7°F1995: 36.9°F1996: 37.2°F1997: 28.2°F1998: 45.4°F1999: 38.3°F2000: 40.0°F2001: 44.7°F2002: 36.0°F2003: 36.0°F2004: 35.8°F2005: 38.1°F2006: 39.6°F2007: 36.8°F2008: 37.0°F2009: 36.9°F2010: 41.3°F2011: 36.4°F2012: 35.1°F2013: 41.2°F2014: 50.1°F2015: 32.0°F2016: 30.2°F2017: 36.2°F2018: 35.7°F2019: 34.5°F2020: 37.6°Flong-term trend197319801990200020102020
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°May: -0.2°F-0.2MJune: -0.3°F-0.3JJuly: -0.1°F-0.1JAugust: +0.1°F+0.1ASeptember: +0.8°F+0.8SOctober: +0.5°F+0.5O

September has warmed the most — about 0.8°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 22 years of daily observations at Les Buissons, 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 →