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Has the climate in Maple Ridge changed?

Maple Ridge has warmed about 3°F between 1971 and 2020.

About 0.6°F per decade, measured from Maple Ridge's official daily weather records, 1971–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Maple Ridge'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
+2.0°F
1970s
48.5°F
Recent
50.5°F
A steady upward drift

Maple Ridge's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2020.

45°47°49°51°53°1971: 47.3°F1972: 46.7°F1973: 47.5°F1974: 49.0°F1975: 48.3°F1976: 48.4°F1977: 49.3°F1978: 48.9°F1979: 49.5°F1980: 47.4°F1981: 50.1°F1982: 48.5°F1983: 49.5°F1984: 48.4°F1985: 47.3°F1986: 50.3°F1987: 51.1°F1988: 49.6°F1989: 49.3°F1990: 49.6°F1991: 49.5°F1992: 51.6°F1993: 49.5°F1994: 50.6°F1995: 50.9°F1996: 48.7°F1997: 50.5°F1998: 51.4°F1999: 49.3°F2000: 49.1°F2001: 49.4°F2002: 49.6°F2003: 50.7°F2004: 51.7°F2005: 50.7°F2006: 51.6°F2007: 49.3°F2008: 48.8°F2009: 49.5°F2010: 50.8°F2011: 48.4°F2012: 48.1°F2013: 50.0°F2014: 51.2°F2015: 53.0°F2016: 51.8°F2017: 50.6°F2018: 51.7°F2019: 50.3°F2020: 52.1°Flong-term trend197119801990200020102020
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.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°January: +1.6°F+1.6JFebruary: +0.5°F+0.5FMarch: +0.4°F+0.4MApril: +0.5°F+0.5AMay: +1.3°F+1.3MJune: +1.1°F+1.1JJuly: +1.9°F+1.9JAugust: +1.7°F+1.7ASeptember: +0.9°F+0.9SOctober: +0.3°F+0.3ONovember: +0.9°F+0.9NDecember: +0.6°F+0.6D

July has warmed the most — about 2.0°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Haney Ubc RF Admin, a weather station, about 5 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →